Trois-Rivières: a man takes the field two times in 24 hours with stolen vehicles

Photo Amélie St-Yves
Martin Levasseur was brought to the courthouse of Trois-Rivières yesterday morning, where he appeared in ten charges, including dangerous driving and theft.

Amélie St-Yves

Wednesday, 30 August, 2017 16:21

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THREE RIVERS, | A man of 37 years would have ended up in the ditch two times in 24 hours after attempting to steal two dealerships located on the same street.

Martin Levasseur has sparked a deployment police officer on Tuesday after-noon at Three Rivers, when he fled at full speed on highway 40 with a Chevrolet Cruze white 2014 fly direct from the dealer. At least five police vehicles took up the chase as he fled dangerously towards Montreal.

He took the field in the exit 192, three miles away, trying to escape the police. He attempted to flee on foot through a wooded area, but is done to put the hand to the neck by the police officers.

Martin Levasseur is also accused of having abandoned a pick-up Ford F-150, in another gap of Three-Rivers, not even 24 hours earlier.

Ford

The series of events begins in the day of Monday, and that it would be presented to the dealer Three Rivers Ford to take a look at Focus 2009. According to witnesses, he could have taken advantage of a moment of inadvertence of the counsel to the sales Dave St-Amant in order to steal the key from a pick-up truck F-150, which was stapled in a folder on his desk.

He would have returned to steal the truck to 21: 30 Monday evening, but would have missed the shot trying to get out of the course, to break a piece of fence and take the gap directly on the other side, before abandoning the scene.

The counselors were big doubts on Tuesday morning on the identity of the thief, as Levasseur seemed fishy.

“The day before, he had told us his real name and the place where her father worked. So we called his father, and he confirmed that it was him and that he had just come out of prison,” says councillor Dave St-Amant, who has served.

Chevrolet

A few hours later, at about 14: 50 on Tuesday, Martin Levasseur would be interested in a Cruze white in Trois-Rivières Chevrolet. The thief would have said that he only wanted to start to listen to the engine.

The adviser, Jean-Paul Lussier has left him the key while he also took care of a second client to the outside, and as he watched from the corner of the eye. He began to worry when he saw the car take the path of the output.

“I start to run, to go and see it. He turned to the right like a real crazy, the wheels screaming”, he says.

Fifteen minutes later, the thief of the Cruze was off the road, and the police caught while he wanted to flee.

Martin Levasseur is facing ten charges including theft, dangerous driving, flight, possession of a prohibited weapon, or pepper spray, and break condition, since it should be in home therapy. According to several witnesses, he seemed to be intoxicated during the events.