Robbery goes awry

A convenience store in Ile Bizard was the scene in one of the more bizarre hold-up stories you’ll hear all summer. A young male, about 17 years of age, walked into a Cherrier Street store Saturday evening around 9:25 p.m. with every intention of robbing the place.

The cashier, though, had other ideas.

The would-be thief walked into the store brandishing a steak knife and ordered the cashier, an 18-year-old Ile Bizard resident, to “give me the cash.” The clerk looked at the steak knife and asked the thief if it was, in fact, a joke, said Const. Khobee Gibson of Montreal police Station 3. When the thief assured the cashier he was serious, the cashier noticed he was due for a deposit and quickly slipped all the 20-dollar bills into the store’s safe through a special slit. Noticing he was powerless to get the cashier to hand him any cash at all, the thief fled the store on foot and empty-handed, Gibson said. The would-be thief was about five-foot-ten and weighed about 150 pounds, and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a blue t-shirt and jeans.

Caught in the act

A thief caught in the act fled quickly when the Dollard des Ormeaux home he had broken into was not as empty as he thought, police said. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon around 1:45 p.m. when an unidentified male forced the back door of a home on Walnut Street. Unfortunately for the male, a 16-year-old resident of the home was in the basement. When she heard the noise, she called out ‘who’s there?’ said Const. Chantal Castonguay of Montreal police Station 4. The robber turned and fled the same way he entered, she added. The suspect was a white male, about 30 years old, wearing a black shirt. He stands six feet tall and weighed about 195 pounds, police said.



Thieves make off with booty

from Pierrefonds home

A Pierrefonds woman left the house for a couple of hours last week, and paid for it.

The 40-year-old Meloche Street resident had been gone from 10: 15 to 11: 40 a.m. last Thursday when she returned home find her house broken into and valuable taken, Station 3 police said.

The woman reported thousands of dollars of electronic equipment stolen, including a desktop computer, two IPods, a digital camera, a digital video camera. In addition, two mens’ leather jackets and more than $8,500 in jewelry were also stolen from the home, said Const. Khobee Gibson of Montreal police Station 3. The suspect broke into the home through the front door after disarming the alarm by cutting the phone lines and left through the back door and fled toward an adjacent wooded area, Gibson added.