Busy night in Ste. Anne’s

Police patrollers in Ste. Anne de Bellevue were busy overnight from Thursday to Friday, handing out numerous tickets for municipal bylaw offences to partygoers.

According to police Station 1 Const. Chantal Morneau, officers handed out eight tickets for drinking in public, three tickets for urinating in public, one ticket for being in a public park past curfew, and one more for being drunk in public. The offenders ranged in age from 18 to 25 years old and were from the West Island and various other areas like Valleyfield, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Ormstown, and Morin Heights. All tickets handed out were for $141.

Alert cashier foils thief

A 22-year-old Montreal man was arrested and will be charged with credit-card fraud after an incident at a pharmacy in Pierrefonds last weekend, police said. The man walked into the Jean Coutu store on St. Charles Boulevard in Pierrefonds last Friday at 6:40 p.m. and attempted to purchase some goods with a credit card, said Const. Daniel Maheu of Montreal police Station 3. The alert clerk, noticing that the man’s card was reported as stolen, told him, the card didn’t work and asked if he had another while summoning police via the alarm, Maheu said. The man kept trying until police arrived and took him into custody. Upon searching him, police found other stolen cards and will be charging the man with multiple counts of fraud, Maheu added.

“This was a good arrest for us.”

Wheels stolen

Thieves broke into the Civic Honda D.D.O dealership over the weekend and stole the wheels right off two cars on the lot, Station 4 police said.

Staff at the Sources Boulevard dealership reported Monday morning that the crooks had mounted two cars — a Honda Civic and Volkswagen Jetta — up on blocks with their wheels and mags stolen, said Const. Leslie Potts of Montreal police Station 4.

The theft happened sometimes over the weekend, while the dealership was closed and police are still investigating, but currently have no suspects, Potts added.

Work-related accident

A mechanic working at Skyservice Aviation in Dorval was rushed to hospital last Thursday morning following a work-related accident.

Police Station 5 Const. Lilliana Bellucci said, at about 1:50 a.m. the mechanic went to go check the tires of a plane that had just landed, before it had been towed into the hangar. However, the linesman, not realizing where the mechanic was, began backing up the plane towards the hangar and ran over the mechanic’s legs. He was rushed to the Montreal General Hospital with injuries to his legs and a laceration on his thigh.