Hey, you forgot to pay for that . . .
Police arrested a 52-year-old man last Wednesday for stealing $450 worth of beer, meat and cheese from Loblaws in Kirkland.
On March 7 at 4:50 p.m., a security guard watched the Lachine resident fill a grocery cart, push it past the self-serve cash and out the front doors, Const. Chantal Morneau of Montreal police Station 1 said.
The guard called police, who arrested the suspect. A butcher tipped off the guard after the suspect requested several large cuts of veal and filet mignon - each worth as much as $70 - for the second day in a row, Morneau said. "This guy has dossier after dossier of shoplifting across Canada," she said. The man is already on probation for shoplifting offences and is wanted in other provinces.
Édouard Jurick
Comment online since March 14th 2007Welcome to our justice system. If that guy would have received fifty lashes the first time he was caught, I don't think that we would be reading this story today.