Man fined for hate cards

A Pointe Claire man who distributed cards with the addresses of anti-Semitic websites listed on them has been fined. “To solicit or go door to door you need a permit,” said Const. Liliana Bellucci of Montreal police Station 5. “There is an ongoing investigation to determine whether or not we have enough to go criminal.”

Bellucci said the man, aged 19 or 20 years old, was fined $210 for delivering the cards to residences in Pointe Claire and Dorval.

A hate-crimes investigation was launched two weeks ago after several residents reported receiving the cards. Some of the notes listed seven websites containing anti-Semitic and racist material.

Police are trying to determine if the act is considered a criminal matter, Bellucci said. “We’re taking it seriously because we don’t want to encourage this type of act,” she added.

Suspects caught in act

Two men in their 20s are being held after a botched robbery landed the men in police custody early Sunday morning in Dollard des Ormeaux. An employee at R.E.A.L. Bagel was taking a cigarette break outside the St. John’s Boulevard bakery Sunday at 12:45 a.m. when he noticed a suspicious white van in the parking lot, which left after drawing the man’s attention. When the employee, a 23-year-old Dorval man, turned to go back inside the store, he came face to face with two men, who fled out the back door when they realized they’d been discovered, said Const. Chantal Castonguay of Montreal police Station 4. When the employee gave chase, he noticed the same white van that had been parked out front moments earlier. The employee called 911 and gave police the van’s license plate. Two cops stationed at a drunk-driving roadblock nearby found the van minutes later entering an indoor parking garage on St. John’s Boulevard. The men were arrested and will be charged with breaking and entering. Nothing was stolen.

Drive-through carjacking

A Tim Hortons employee was carjacked last week in the Dorval restaurant’s parking lot. On June 5 at around 4:30 a.m. the woman was about to get out of her car when she was approached by a man. The suspect grabbed the 48-year-old woman’s left arm and tried to pull her out of the car, said Const. Liliana Bellucci of Montreal police Station 5. She realized what was happening and screamed while honking the car’s horn. The man calmly threw her to the ground and drove away with a male accomplice. The incident happened at the Tim Hortons parking lot near the corner of Hymus and Sources boulevards. Police say the vehicle was found the following day at 3:45 p.m. in the borough of Ahuntsic/Cartierville and was towed for fingerprinting. Bellucci said the suspect who pulled the woman from her car is black, around 20 years old, thin, has short hair and was wearing a brown sweater and dark pants. The other suspect is also black, she added.

Intruder shocks resident

An 18-year-old woman came face to face with an intruder last Friday after he broke the door leading to her bedroom. A man kicked in the side door of a Kirkland home and went inside at 8:50 a.m., said Const. Chantal Morneau of Montreal police Station 1. The woman was asleep in her room and didn’t hear a thing. When the suspect got to her bedroom he tried to open the door, but it was locked, Morneau said. So he put his shoulder into it. His sudden entrance woke the woman, who proceeded to scream. The man, described as around 50 years old, five-foot-10, 200 pounds, with short, greying hair, fled the Morley Hill Street house without saying a word, she said.ƴ