Thuggery in Ste. Anne

Police broke up a fight outside a Ste. Anne de Bellevue bar before anyone was seriously hurt early last Friday morning.

Patrol officers responded to an incident on Ste. Anne Street at about 3:30 a.m., said Const. J.P. Lévis of Montreal police Station 1. “It was a two-on-one fight and one guy had a metal bar,” he said. “The swinging (of the bar) had started but the police stopped the fight before anyone got hurt badly.”

The victim in the case is a 19-year-old Pointe Claire man who refused to press charges. The alleged suspects are an 18-year-old Dollard des Ormeaux man and a 20-year-old Pierrefonds man.

Police did not taken in the suspects after handcuffing them at the scene and getting their IDs but the case is not closed yet pending further investigation, Lévis said, adding charges can still be laid by the Crown even if a victim doesn’t officially press charges.

Two police officers from Station 1 will be going all out to raise funds for the Special Olympics in Kirkland starting Friday at 4 p.m. until Sunday night.

Sgt. Marc Ratté and Const. Mary Jack will sit outside on the roof of the Wal-Mart at the corner of Highway 40 and St. Charles Boulevard for two days in order raise funds for the Special Olympics. The two have also helped organize the police Torch Run which raises funds for the latter organization.

The public is invited to drop by and offer their support.

Police are on the look-out for a roughly 25-year old white, blonde man who was last seen wearing a red Canadiens tuque, a long black coat with a fur-lined hood, speaks English, weighs about 158 pounds, stands five foot four, and has brown eyes.

He entered a St. Charles Boulevard depanneur on Jan. 13 in the early afternoon and asked the cashier for a cup of water. Finishing it off, he concealed his hand in his left coat pocket and claimed he had a gun, according to police station 3 media relations officer Dan Maheu.

The suspect then had the cashier hand him the entire contents of the cash register. "He fled on foot," Maheu said.

Police are advising shoppers to keep away from strangers in parked cars in parking lots after a purse snatch that occurred January 17 at around 4:20 p.m. at the IGA parking lot near the West Island Market on Salaberry Boulevard in Dollard des Ormeaux.

A woman emerging from the store was blocked on the way to her car by a 25-year old, white, blonde-haired man who speaks English. Striking her with his car door, he stole her purse and made off in his vehicle.

The get-away car was a small, dark hatchback car.