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All Boivin,the most wanted fugitive in Canada, was arrested on Friday morning in southern Spain after more than two years on the run.

Boivin was picked up at a home in Marbella, a resort town on Spain's Costa del Sol known for its beaches and high-end crowd. Sûreté du Québec broke the news on Friday morning.

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Some of the pomp and circumstance of Saint-Jean Baptiste Day will be subdued today as a Montreal neighbourhood grieves three people killed this week in a horrific shooting.

The Côte-des-Neiges Business Development Corporation says it has cancelled planned Fête nationale celebrations "out of respect" for the community.

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A police officer, a civilian, and a suspect are dead following a shooting in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood on Monday afternoon, with a second officer seriously injured and a major police operation still underway as of 2 p.m.

The incident began around 11:35 a.m. near the intersection of Trans Island Avenue and Courtrai Avenue, at the base of an apartment building close to the Hilton Garden Inn Montreal Midtown.

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To say Montreal has a shady past would be a bit of an understatement.

The city, once home to a booming red light district and bustling underground crime operation, was also considered the "bank robbery capital of North America" for a large chunk of the 20th century.

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If your car has ever disappeared overnight, you already know the specific dread of walking out in the morning to an empty parking spot.

The truth is Montreal has always had its share of vehicle theft, but the past few years pushed that reality into uncomfortable territory for a lot of residents.

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With the weather heating up, Montreal is seeing an uptick in break-ins across the island.

Montreal recorded 487 break-ins in May, the highest single-month total of 2026 by a significant margin and a step up from April's 410. That pushes the running total to 2,220 as of May 31, according to data from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), tracked through the city's Vue sur la sécurité publique interactive mapping tool.

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As Montreal settles into spring, so too does one of the city's more persistent seasonal patterns: an uptick in crime.

And when it comes to break-ins, the past month has been especially busy.

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March was another rough month for break-ins in Montreal, with 331 incidents recorded across the island.

That pushes the 2026 running total to 1,323 as of March 31, according to data from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).

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Among the 25 most-wanted fugitives in Canada right now, only one is a woman. And police believe she may be in Quebec.

Katherine Bergeron-Pinzarrone, 27, is wanted in connection with the second-degree murder of a 16-year-old Montrealer who died in York Region, Ontario, on August 8, 2024.

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Nearly 1,000 break-ins have been reported across Montreal in the first two and a half months of 2026, and the data shows some neighbourhoods are being hit considerably harder than others.

The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) has recorded 994 break-and-enter incidents between January 1 and March 11, 2026, according to the latest data available through the city's Vue sur la sécurité publique interactive tool.

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Montreal police made a middle-of-the-night arrest that closed the book on a months-long manhunt.

The SPVM arrested Bryan Fuentes Gramajo, 24, at around 2:40 a.m. on Thursday in the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough, taking down the fugitive who had sat at the very top of the Bolo Program's most wanted list in Canada for months.

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The new year hasn't brought any relief for Montreal homeowners dealing with break-ins.

The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) has recorded 377 break-and-enter incidents between January 1 and January 28, 2026, according to the latest data available through the city's Vue sur la sécurité publique interactive tool.

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