(Montreal) Two suspects suspected of having committed a series of criminal acts using firearms and a stolen vehicle, from February 22 to March 3 in Montreal and Laval, were recently arrested according to what police announce Thursday.
Posted at 9:51 a.m.
Matisse Brière-Duval and Akeem François, both 19, appeared at the Montreal courthouse last Friday to face multiple charges, including possession of a firearm, robbing a firearm, robbery and concealment.
The two suspects had been arrested by the police the day before, on March 10, with the collaboration of members of the Tactical Intervention Group (GTI). Akeem François had a loaded firearm on him when he was arrested.
According to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the two men are linked to at least three incidents.
On February 22, an individual pointed a firearm at a motorist parked in the borough of Rivière-des-Praires – Pointe-aux-Trembles before ordering him to get out and flee in the stolen vehicle accompanied by of an accomplice.
On March 3, this same vehicle was reportedly used to fire five shots at a residence in the 24and Avenue in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension.
And later that same day, two armed individuals accompanied by a third suspect stole nearly $75,000 worth of cell phones and accessories from an establishment on boulevard des Laurentides, in Laval, before fleeing in the same vehicle stolen on February 22.
The SPVM reports that officers from the Service de police de Laval (SPL) collaborated in the investigation leading to the arrest of the two young men.