Airport security breach

At around 6 p.m., airport security realized they had accidentally let a passenger carrying an object that looked like a knife in his bag through the checkpoint. For about three hours, security and police shut down the airport looking for the passenger, who was apprehended at the gate before boarding the plane. The object that caused all the commotion turned out to be a multi-tool the passenger did not know he was forbidden to pack in his carry-on luggage. Operations at the airport returned to normal at about 9 p.m.



Police catch break-and-enter suspect

The arrest of 28-year-old Pierrefonds resident Frederic Trepanier after he was alleged to have broken into a home on Cayou Street will close the book on more than 100 local break-and-enter cases that were still unsolved, police said.

Trepanier is alleged to have broken into the Cayou Street home Aug. 9 at 11:25 a.m., by cutting the house’s telephone lines and forcing the garage door and a side door into the home, said Montreal police Station 3 Const. Daniel Maheu. The house, though, was not as empty as he had hoped. When he entered the house, the would-be thief came face to face with a 12-year-old boy who lives there.

Police said the intruder first asked the boy if he was home alone, and when the boy said nothing, fled the way he came in.

The boy attempted to call police, but with the cut phone lines, he had no way to get through, Maheu said, so the boy ran to a nearby day camp and used the phone there. Police were able to get a good description of the suspect, and soon after, apprehended him at the corner of Gouin Boulevard and Laframboise Street in Ile Bizard. Trepanier was the passenger in a Ford pickup truck when it was stopped, and he was taken into custody, Maheu said.

The arrest will close the book more than 100 active cases where a suspect cut the home’s phone lines and robbed the house in parts of Kirkland, Pierrefonds, Beaconsfield and Dollard des Ormeaux, Maheu said. Trepanier has been charged with several counts of breaking and entering.

Break-in spree

Police are looking for a suspect who may have been involved with home break-ins in the police Station 5 territory last week, including two in Dorval and two in Pointe Claire.

Last Thursday at about 9 p.m., a Pointe Claire resident went to go answer a knock at the front door. A man wearing a ski mask, black pants, a black coat, and white running shoes took off as soon as the homeowner opened the door. Police are looking for a white male, five-feet-ten, weighing 195 pounds.

$5,000 in copper stolen

Police are currently interrogating the driver of a transport vehicle following a copper theft on Aug. 15 in the afternoon. The driver for a Dorval-based company was on his way to make a delivery when he apparently received a phone call informing him the location of the delivery had been changed. According to Const. Johanne Lefebvre of police Station 5, over $5,000 worth of copper went missing. The investigation is ongoing.

A homecoming

A Beaconsfield family returning from vacation just past 4 p.m. on Sunday didn’t think twice about the blue Honda Accord parked in front of their house at first. But then, a 20-year-old male appeared at the open front door holding one of their laptops. Realizing they had been broken into, the homeowner started chasing the 20-year-old. In the meantime, the apparent getaway car sped off, leaving the suspect to flee on foot.

Police are looking for the driver of the Honda Accord, who is described only as a black male. The second suspect is a white male about 20 years old. He has a shaved head, is about six feet tall, and was wearing dark pants and a white tank top at the time of the break-in.