{"id":54,"date":"2015-05-06T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/six-busted-in-chomedey-drug-raids\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:29","slug":"six-busted-in-chomedey-drug-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/six-busted-in-chomedey-drug-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Six busted in Chomedey drug raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/>Laval Police pounced on four alleged 4th Street drug dens in Chomedey, early Thursday morning. The raids were among ten coordinated busts executed by police in Laval and Laurentian homes, April 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll four searches in Laval were in residences within 100 m from one another,\u201d Sgt. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jean told <i>The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cInvestigators arrested eight people\u2014six men and two women\u2014during the operation. Six of them were Laval residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour of them were members of a family, all but one of whom had many prior [arrests] for drug trafficking and weapons offences going back years,\u201d Sgt. Jean said in an interview. \u201cAll six appeared before an afternoon court session in Laval, May 1. They will remain incarcerated until a May 8 bail hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They charged Andr\u00e9 Bigras 53; Michelle Bigras, 55; Philippe Ouellette 63, and Daniel Bigras 54, with weapons possession and negligent storage charges and for cocaine and cannabis possession, trafficking and conspiracy. Guy Roy 54, and Sylvain Monette 51, face cocaine trafficking conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the remaining two for growing cannabis. They were been released after they agreed to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Among the weapons seized, investigators found a .25 calibre pistol\u2014a weapon that is prohibited in Canada because it is so small that it is easy to conceal.<\/p>\n<p>The operation also involved Sainte Agathe des Monts and Mont Laurier police, as well as three <i>S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec<\/i> and one Royal Canadian Mounted Police tactical squads and an Ontario Provincial Police squad with special technical expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Pierre Brochet underscored that cooperation between several police services made the busts possible (<a href=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/brochet-cracks-down-on-bar-violence\/\">see accompanying report<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime has no boundaries, so we have to work together,\u201d said Sgt. Jean.<\/p>\n<p><b>Recr\u00e9ath\u00e8que arson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Police are tight-lipped about the identity and motive of two young men, aged 18 and 21, who allegedly set fire to the roof of the former Recr\u00e9ath\u00e8que on Labelle boulevard in Chomedey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt around 12:30, April 25, firefighters responded to a call about smoke emanating from the roof,\u201d reported Sgt. Jean. \u201cWhen they arrived, they discovered two men [trapped] on the roof who couldn\u2019t get down. Firefighters rescued them, then quickly handed them over to police, after discovering evidence of arson\u2014accelerants that had been used to start the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the pair, whose names he declined to disclose, who were not known to police. They were released after they signed a promise to appear in court at a later date.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PoliceLavalLogo02-vi.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PoliceLavalLogo02-vi.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Laval Police pounced on four alleged 4th Street drug dens in Chomedey, early Thursday morning. The raids were among ten coordinated busts executed by police in Laval and Laurentian homes, April 30. \u201cAll four searches in Laval were in residences within 100 m from one another,\u201d Sgt. 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