Road rage

A police constable conducting a routine driver's license and registration check on Brunswick Street in Dollard des Ormeaux found himself arresting an angry driver who would not submit to his demands Friday at about 6 p.m., said police station 4 community relations officer Leslie Potts.

After asking the car to stop, the officer asked him for his papers, only to be handed a Ziploc bag full of other documents that he did not need. He gave it back to the driver, telling him to separate only the items he had asked for and give those to him.

According to police, the driver then left his seat in a rage and began attacking the officer, who had not choice but to strike him once with his nightstick. That did not stop the angry driver, who assaulted the officer once more. The latter then held him down and called for backup. The driver was arrested, charged with assaulting an officer, and fined before being let go.



A doomed delivery

A Dollard des Ormeaux pizza delivery man found himself delivering all the money on him instead Saturday at 8:35 p.m. after answering a delivery call at an apartment building on Gouin and Sunnybrooke. Bringing the pizza with him up to the fourth floor of the apartment, he was held up by a roughly 1.8 metre tall, black coat wearing suspect who threatened him with a pistol and asked for all his money. The suspect ran away with the cash and nobody was harmed.



Speeding doesn’t pay

A 35-year-old Pierrefonds man learnt the hard way that running from the police just doesn’t pay.

Police flagged the man down on Anciens-Combattants Boulevard in Ste. Anne de Bellevue at about 11:25 a.m. on Sunday morning for doing 81 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. The man did pull over, but then decided to speed off before the officers could reach his car. He headed east on the Highway 40 service road, doing over 100 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. Police clocked him at 150 km/h on the highway, before he exited and then drove in the wrong direction down Morgan Boulevard. The suspect attempted to evade police by hiding in a nearby business, but when he tried to exit the property, he found police blocking his escape.

The suspect was arrested and charged with dangerous driving and engaging in a police pursuit. Officers also issued him four tickets – for speeding, not having a driver’s license, not having plates on the vehicle, and not having any insurance – totalling about $2,000. His car has also been seized for 30 days.

Right crowd…be proud

Montreal police reward St. Paul Elementary Grade 6 student Kyle Clayton on Monday morning for coming up with the winning English slogan for their new anti-street gang campaign: “Right crowd…be proud.”

The contest took place in about 150 schools throughout the island of Montreal.