Dollard woman mugged

Darkness had just fallen around 5:15 p.m. when the 51-year-old victim was grabbed from behind by a masked man. The man yanked the woman’s purse off her shoulder, knocking her to the ground and injuring her knee before fleeing, said Const. Chantal Castonguay of police Station 4. The woman was taken to hospital and police are looking for the man, wearing a mask, who stood about six feet tall and weighed about 180 pounds.



Store holdup



An English-speaking white male wearing a black bandana over his face held up the Montreal DVD and Depanneur Express convenience store in Dollard des Ormeaux last Thursday at 8:50 p.m. and pulled a knife on an initially hesitant cashier, police said. The man entered the store, located on St. John’s Boulevard and asked the cashier to put the contents of the register in a bag. Initially, the cashier hesitated to hand over the cash, so the thief pulled a knife out and waved it menacingly at the 18-year-old Pierrefonds man, said Const. Chantal Castonguay of Montreal police Station 4. The man stood six-foot-one and weighed about 210 pounds and wore a black t-shirt with a white and silver logo.



Pot bust



Police raided two marijuana grow-operations and arrested three people linked to Asian organized crime last Friday, said Const. Chantal Morneau of Station 1. Following information from the public, police secured warrants to search houses in Kirkland and Beaconsfield. At 3:30 p.m. officers seized more than 1,000 marijuana plants valued at over $1 million, Morneau said. Police found 699 plants inside a home on Concord Drive in Beaconsfield and 182 in a house on Terry Fox Street in Kirkland. Another 122 plants were found in a van at one of the addresses. Morneau said the operations were connected. Two men, 44 and 46 years old, and a woman, 37, were arrested.



Store robbed

Police are looking for a man who held up a Pointe Claire convenience store last Thursday evening. At 7:50 p.m. the suspect entered the Sources Boulevard Couche Tard and covered his face with a bandanna, according to Const. Liliane Bellucci of Montreal police Station 5.

The 20-year-old cashier said he pulled out a black-handled knife with a four- to six-inch blade and demanded money from the till. The clerk complied and the man fled, Bellucci said. The suspect is an English-speaking white male, about 22 years old, 5-foot-8, with a heavy build, has brown hair, brown eyes and wore black pants and a black coat.