Firebombing
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The Witnesses Saw More Than the First Officers Did: Somebody Threw an Incendiary Device Into Pizza Mory’s on Rue de Verdun at Half Past Two in the Morning, Walked Away Before Police Arrived, and the SPVM Has Published Nothing At All (September 20, 2026)
Montreal police received a 911 call at around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, September 20, 2026, reporting a fire in a restaurant on Rue de Verdun near 2e Avenue, in the Verdun borough. CTV News Montreal identifies the business as Restaurant Pizza Mory’s. Witnesses told police they saw the suspect throw an incendiary device into the…
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A Molotov Cocktail Through the Front of a House on Saturday, a Man With a Lit Cloth and a Jug of Accelerant on Monday, Both on the Same Block: Nova Scotia RCMP Publish Two Marketway Lane Files and Never Say They Are Connected (September 8, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 by the Nova Scotia RCMP under file numbers 26-138512 and 26-139419; the force’s news feed timestamps the release at 1:31 p.m. EDT. Two incidents two nights apart at the 400 block of Marketway Lane in Timberlea, Nova Scotia. On September 5 at approximately 2:20 a.m., RCMP, fire services and EHS…
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The Window Went In at Ten to Four in the Morning and Incendiary Material Was Left on the Floor: the SPVM Arson Section Takes a Villeray Beauty Salon, and the Suspects Were Gone Before Anyone Arrived (August 29, 2026)
First reported Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 9:28 a.m. by La Presse, in a piece by Anthony Ouellet, with CTV News Montreal carrying the file at 9:56 a.m. Emergency services were alerted at about 3:50 a.m. Saturday to a fire in a mixed commercial and residential building housing a beauty salon, near the intersection of…
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Three Arsons, One Business, Eight Days: York Regional Police Publish a Serial Firebombing File Out of a Richmond Hill Plaza in Which Every Vehicle Used Was Stolen and Nobody Has Been Charged (August 27, 2026)
York Regional Police published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 12:39 p.m. The #2 District Criminal Investigations Bureau is appealing for witnesses after three arsons at the same commercial business at a plaza in the area of Leslie Street and East Wilmot Street in Richmond Hill. On August 19 at about 5:15 a.m.…
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The Last Road Into Kanesatake: Missing Hells Angels Full-Patch Stéphane Plouffe Traced to Mohawk Territory After a Saint-Eustache Meeting (August 13, 2026)
Police sources now place the last confirmed sighting of missing Hells Angels full-patch Stephane Plouffe, 57, on the Mohawk territory of Kanesatake, hours after a August 3 meeting in Saint-Eustache with a second Montreal-chapter biker and a senior figure of the Lebanese underworld. His car turned up 20 kilometres away, and his Saint-Joseph-du-Lac home was…
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Anjou Residential Doorway Firebombing: SPVM Arson Squad Takes Control After Incendiary Object Thrown at Apartment Entry
SPVM Section des incendies criminels launches an arson investigation after an incendiary device was thrown against an apartment door in Montreal’s Anjou borough.
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Villeray Commercial Firebombing: SPVM Arson Squad Hunts Suspect After Jean-Talon East Building Ignited
SPVM Section des incendies criminels investigates a pre-dawn arson attack targeting a mixed commercial-residential building on Jean-Talon Street East in Montreal.