SPVM
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He Walked Up to Them Before He Fired, and the SPVM Has an Urban Camera Mounted at the Corner Where It Happened: a Woman of 23 and a Man of 18 Are Shot on Rue Jacques-Rousseau in Rivière-des-Prairies (September 24, 2026)
First reported Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 9:32 p.m. Eastern by CTV News Montreal and at 10:09 p.m. Eastern by Noovo Info. At approximately 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2026, a suspect approached two people near the corner of rue Jacques-Rousseau and avenue Nicolas-Joly in the Riviere-des-Prairies district of Montreal and fired several shots…
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The Gun Was Fake, the Customers Were People Living in a Tent Encampment, and the Only Quantity Published Is the Word Several: the SPVM Names Clement Christian Masse, 23, and Says More Arrests Are Coming (Originally Reported September 23, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 by the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal. This is not a story that broke today. The SPVM says it arrested a man the previous day, September 22, 2026, alleged to be linked to a drug trafficking network operating principally in the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and targeting vulnerable…
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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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The First Officers Found Nothing at All, and It Took a Resident Almost Six Hours Later to Find the Bullet Holes: Shots Fired on Rue Saint-Georges in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and the SPVM Has Published Nothing on It (September 18, 2026)
Reported Friday, September 18, 2026 at 1:48 p.m. EDT by Robin Della Corte of CTV News Montreal, with a French version carried by Noovo Info at 9:30 p.m. the same day. The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal told CTV it received a call at about 12:45 a.m. on Friday, September 18, 2026…
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The Fire Was Controlled Fast and the House Was Barely Marked, but the Scene Examination Turned Up an Accelerant: a Vehicle Burns in a Driveway on Rue Leclerc in LaSalle and the SPVM Has Posted Nothing About It Itself (September 18, 2026)
Reported Friday, September 18, 2026 at 7:48 a.m. by Karim Benessaieh of La Presse. The alert was raised at about 11 p.m. on Thursday, September 17, 2026 on rue Leclerc near rue Miller in the LaSalle borough of Montreal. Emergency services arrived to find a vehicle parked in the driveway of a residence in flames;…
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Six Arrested, Three Named, and a Charge Sheet That Says Firearms While the Seizure List Says One: the SPVM’s Armed-Violence Squad Closes a Sud-Ouest Drug Line Said to Sell to Vulnerable People, and Publishes Not a Single Weight (September 18, 2026)
The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal published a communique on Friday, September 18, 2026 announcing that it had arrested five men and one woman the previous day, September 17, over a drug trafficking network said to operate mainly in the Sud-Ouest borough and to resell illicit substances to vulnerable people. Searches in…
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Twice in Late August They Could Not Get It to Burn, and at Ten Past Four This Morning It Did: a Third Suspected Arson at the El Khawa Restaurant on Jean-Talon Est Leaves Nine Apartments Evacuated and Three Floors Written Off (September 17, 2026)
First reported Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 6:59 a.m. Eastern by CTV News Montreal, with The Canadian Press following at 1:11 p.m. The SPVM received a 911 call at approximately 4:10 a.m. for a fire at a commercial unit on rue Jean-Talon Est in the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension borough, near 22nd Avenue. The building’s nine apartments were…
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The DNA Was on a Face Mask in a Stolen Acura and the Admission Came in a Cell, Not an Interview Room: Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed Pleads Guilty to Firing on the Yeshiva Gedola, and the Crown Says It Cannot Prove the Word Hate (Originally Reported September 10, 2026)
Originally reported Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 6:01 p.m. EDT by Joe Lofaro of CTV News Montreal. Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed, 20, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, September 9 to one count of discharging a firearm over the November 12, 2023 shooting at the Yeshiva Gedola on Deacon Road in Cote-des-Neiges. Montreal police were called around 5…
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Forty-Five Minutes Separated the Shots in a Villeray Alley From a Pickup Burning Thirty Kilometres West, and the SPVM Has Put Its Arson Module on the Question of Whether They Are the Same File (September 12, 2026)
Reported Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 7:47 a.m. by La Presse Canadienne. Emergency services were alerted around 11 p.m. Friday, September 11, to a man shot in an alley near boulevard Cremazie Ouest in Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension. The victim, 22, was hit in the upper body and taken to hospital; police do not fear for his life.…
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A Kilogram of Cocaine Stamped PO 10 515/P87, a Glock With Thirteen in a Fifteen-Round Magazine, and a Signal Group of Exactly Four: Frédéric Perreault Gets Three and a Half Years, and the Man the SPVM Antigang Was Actually Watching Is Still Before the Courts (Originally Reported September 8, 2026)
This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 by Daniel Renaud of La Presse’s investigations team and is not a story that broke today. Frederic Perreault, 29, was sentenced Friday to three and a half years after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a…