Montreal police reported on Wednesday having seized “more than twenty prohibited edged weapons”, a pistol and a “taser gun” during three interventions on March 11 and 12. Four people were arrested in the wake of these operations.
It was first on Saturday, around 9 p.m., that two patrollers went to an apartment in the Southwest of Montreal, after a call received at 911 by neighbors who had heard “worrisome cries” at the interior of the accommodation.
According to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the officers were refused access to the accommodation, before “breaking down the door, fearing for the safety of other people who may be inside” . “The patrol officers then found themselves faced with an agitated and aggressive man, dressed in a bulletproof vest and armed with a baseball bat,” reads a statement from the police force.
The police say they first “tried to reason” with the suspect, but in vain, before controlling him with an electric pulse weapon, or “taser gun”. The individual was then arrested and transported to a nearby hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Another woman was on the scene at the time, but was not injured. Then, during a security search in the accommodation, “the police found more than twenty prohibited edged weapons as well as an electric pulse weapon”, reports the police force.
Two other events
The next day, Sunday around 5 p.m., two other patrollers were arrested by a citizen on the 71e avenue, in Rivière-des-Prairies. The man in question said that he had taken in his vehicle “a young man who had just been the victim of a robbery”. Two individuals had pushed the victim to the ground, threatening him with a knife, before stealing his headphones.
Later, a nearby patrolman identified “two suspects whose profile matches the report transmitted on the airwaves”. The two young men, minors, were then arrested. The SPVM affirms that an investigation is underway “to determine if they could be linked to other similar thefts that have recently occurred in the same area”.
The last event occurred the same day, at the very end of the evening around half past midnight. Two sergeants then approached a place “known to be linked to drug trafficking”, on rue Clark, in the city center. Upon arrival, they report seeing a dispersing group.
A suspect in his thirties with “suspicious behavior” was then arrested as he tried to walk away. A loaded 9mm pistol was later found in one of the vehicles in front of which the suspect had stopped. Known to the police, the man was then placed under arrest.
Anyone with information related to these three files is invited to contact 911, their neighborhood station, or the confidential Info-Crime Montreal center at 514-393-1133. Rewards of up to $3000 can be offered for information leading to arrests.