Counterfeit coins
Police officers at Station 5 are warning the public about counterfeit $2 coins.
Last Wednesday at about 8 p.m., a clerk at a Couche Tard Depanneur in Pointe Claire noticed the centre of a toonie he had received 30 minutes earlier was loose. Upon closer inspection, the details of the coin, such as the ridges around the side, also differed from a real $2 coin.
While this was the first official report filed, Station 5 Const. Liliana Bellucci said she had been receiving complaints about odd looking coins for the past two weeks.
Assault charge
Police arrested a woman at her Bonny Street home Sunday around 11 a.m. after she allegedly assaulted a man holding a young boy in his arms, police said. The woman was arrested and will be charged with first-degree assault after a man was beaten and scratched about the head, neck and chest area, said Montreal police Station 3 Const. Khobee Gibson. The woman is to have been intoxicated at the time of the incident, and police were unable to ascertain whether the man and woman were married and whose child the victim was holding, he added.
Cellphone snatched
A 27-year-old Pierrefonds man says he was attacked by two males, stabbed and robbed of his cellphone in a Pierrefonds park last Wednesday at 2:05 p.m., said Const. Khobee Gibson of Montreal police Station 3. The man said he was attacked from behind by two men while spending time in Villeret Park in western Pierrefonds with his two-year-old son, but couldn’t provide a description of either suspect. The victim said he was punched in the head and stabbed in the neck, but refused transport to the hospital, Gibson said.
by Elyse Amend 
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