Martin C. Barry, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two youths injured in Cartier Metro knife attack
Two men in their early 20s suffered serious knife injuries on June 19 when they were attacked at the Cartier Metro stop in Laval.
The Laval Police received a call around 7:15 pm regarding an altercation involving several people at the Metro station, according to LPD community relations officer Stéphanie Beshara.
The two, aged 20 and 22, sustained serious but non-life-threatening knife wounds, requiring them to be transported by Urgences-Santé to hospital.
According to the LPD, no suspects were immediately arrested, although a security perimeter was put up around the crime scene to allow police to conduct an investigation of the circumstances.
No psych test for Armand-Frappier knife attack suspect
A suspect arrested following the murder in May in the Armand Frappier Woods of a Laval woman who was a real estate broker will not be undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
A lawyer for Konstantinos Tsagaroulis, 20, did not request a psychiatric evaluation during an arraignment last Thursday at the Palais de Justice de Laval.
Last May 29, 46-year-old Irina Draghicescu, was stabbed dozens of time in the woods in Chomedey.
According to preliminary reports, Tsagaroulis didn’t know Draghicescu who was out taking a walk. Tsagaroulis’s next court date is in September.
LPD make three arrests over Desjardins online fraud
The Laval Police announced recently that they arrested three people in connection with a major data theft and $8.9-million fraud involving Caisses Desjardins, some five years after the alleged crime.
The LPD said one of the suspects was caught with a list of personal data for 1.6 million Quebecers.
The arrests are tied to a 2019 data theft, described as the largest ever in the Canadian financial services sector, targeting more than 9.7 million Desjardins clients in Canada and internationally, including almost seven million Quebecers.
Laval Police inspector Jean-François Rousselle said the suspects were allegedly able to use the stolen personal information to get access to the clients’ accounts through Accès D, the bank’s online banking platform.
The Laval Police said the suspects used the stolen data to commit fraud between September 2018 and January 2019.
Thirty-six-year-old Ayoub Kourdal and 33-year-old Imad Jbara were scheduled to appear in court, while a court date for a third suspect had not been set.
The Laval Police said they are still searching for a fourth suspect.
The leak was initially blamed on an employee of the Desjardins marketing team who was able to access confidential information, despite not having the clearance level to do so.
Serious car accident in Saint-François
On the night of June 3, the Laval Police, the Laval Fire Dept. and Urgences-Santé were called upon to respond to a major road accident in the Laval district of Saint-François.
For reasons not fully understood by accident investigators, two vehicles travelling in opposite directions along avenue Marcel-Villeneuve collided with what is estimated to have been a considerable high-speed impact.
According to the investigators’ initial analysis, one of the vehicles deviated from its lane and struck the other that was oncoming. Firefighters from the LFD used special tools to free at least one victim in one of the vehicles who was trapped.