Patrol officers from the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) seized two illegal firearms and arrested eight people in separate interventions conducted Thursday evening and overnight in Montreal’s Outremont and Ahuntsic sectors, Cartierville
Around 10 p.m. Thursday night, a citizen called 911 after seeing three people holding a firearm in a black sedan parked outside an Ahuntsic-Cartierville apartment building.
Three men, aged 15, 18 and 26 respectively, were arrested and a loaded handgun was found in the vehicle.
One of the arrested suspects had been arrested with a firearm in the past.
Around 1:30 a.m. Thursday night, another citizen called 911 that a group of people had forced the front door of the building where he lived in Outremont. The suspects fled the scene in a car before entering the apartment.
The vehicle was eventually intercepted and its five occupants arrested, four men and one woman between the ages of 19 and 21.
After the search, officers found a loaded gun on one of the suspects. Another member of the group was in possession of a hammer.
An investigation is underway to clarify the circumstances of this event.