His blood-cold scares away a thief

Pierre-Alexandre Maltais

Thursday, January 4, 2018 07:24

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SAGUENAY | convenience store owners 86 years of Saguenay has shown great composure in front of a thief in their twenties who insisted to have the contents of his cash register, in the early evening on Wednesday.

The man with the masked face was so surprised by the composure of the woman he had preferred to flee the scene without seizing anything, and above all, without taking to the courageous owner of the convenience store Gagnon, located on Jacques-Cartier street in the borough of Chicoutimi.

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Knife

According to the public Safety of Saguenay, the thief threatened him with a knife the owner, Lucienne Tremblay, in order to submit the contents of the cash drawer.

The latter has refused and notified the suspect that she alerted the police immediately. That was enough for the ugly to take the powder cleared off.

The lady who owns the trade for no less than 43 years old, was not his first experience with a burglar armed.

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Lucienne Tremblay, owner

“This is the sixth thief armed with a knife since 1974. The last, it’s back to two years. He had come in the portico with a knife, and shouting “hold-up”, but it was not hidden. He was scared and he left. [Wednesday], it’s the same thing that happened, ” said Ms. Tremblay.

Surveillance camera

On Thursday, the police of Saguenay had still not managed to trace the individual in the end of the day.

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The public Safety of Saguenay has released images from the surveillance camera that caught the thief in action Wednesday night, inside the convenience store Gagnon located on the Jacques-Cartier street, in the borough of Chicoutimi.

The scoundrel, however, has been filmed by surveillance cameras of the trade. At the time of the event, the man was wearing a scarf, gray to conceal his face as well as a beanie and a coat of dark colors.

“With the collaboration of the population and the dissemination of the images, we hope to put the hand in the next few hours at the collar of the individual who has committed this infraction,” said Thursday the sergeant of the police of Saguenay, Dominic Simard.

– With QMI Agency