Man arrested in recent firearms roundup allegedly tried to bribe cops

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One of many males arrested in a sequence of raids by Montreal police, throughout which they seized 19 firearms, is a Lachine resident who noticed his statutory launch revoked final 12 months as a result of he was alleged to have provided police a $10,000 bribe if they may make 14 grams of cocaine disappear.

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Kyle (Okay-Irish) Grabowski, 37, was amongst a number of individuals arrested between Jan. 12 and 25 as police performed a sequence of raids in Beaconsfield, LaSalle, Châteauguay and Montreal North.

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Throughout the latest raid, on Jan. 25, the Montreal police Sud-Ouest multi-sectoral firearms workforce arrested 4 individuals and executed 4 search warrants in LaSalle and Châteauguay.

“Investigators seized eight handguns, two high-capacity magazines, two further magazines, ammunition, a bulletproof vest, cocaine, crack and marijuana,” the Montreal police stated in an announcement.

Among the many 4 individuals arrested had been Jeremiah Caterson Sampson, 30, of Châteauguay, and Grabowski “who’re identified by the aliases Mayo and Okay-Irish, respectively.”

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Grabowski faces seven firearms-related expenses, plus one depend involving the possession of hashish.

Final 12 months, Grabowski accomplished a 10-year sentence he acquired in 2012, after he pleaded responsible to a protracted sequence of violent crimes, together with a house invasion he carried out in 2009 together with his brother Kris and two different males in St-Adolphe-d’Howard.

The boys had been armed with baseball bats and firearms. They tied up a younger lady and beat her whereas demanding to know the place her brother was. They claimed the girl’s brother had stolen hashish from a grow-op.

His prolonged sentence additionally concerned his position in a combat in 2009 exterior a bar, throughout which Grabowski stabbed a person within the ear and neck.

Whereas serving the 10-year sentence, Grabowski accomplished highschool and discovered how you can work as a mechanic.

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Based on a call made by the Parole Board of Canada final February, he informed his parole officers that “he grew up in a criminalized and dysfunctional household that commonly handled narcotics and violence. You began utilizing marijuana along with your father round 11 years outdated. As for different forms of medication, you say you’ve got experimented ecstasy and pace at about 17-18, however by no means used cocaine. As for alcohol, you began ingesting at round 15.

“Caseworkers point out that your crimes illustrate that you could be use weapons and gratuitous violence whenever you really feel threatened or provoked and/or search vengeance and retaliation. In addition they are of the opinion that the variety of weapons and ammunition concerned signifies that you’ve got been extra concerned in prison actions than is definitely mirrored in your conviction historical past.”

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Grabowski was by no means granted parole and, in March 2019, he mechanically certified for a statutory launch after having reached the two-thirds mark of his sentence.

Two years later, on Dec. 4, 2021, organized crime police investigators in a metropolis not recognized within the parole board determination entered a bar as a part of a routine examine. Grabowski was seated on the bar and headed exterior to speak to the institution’s proprietor when the police entered.

“After verifying your id, a police officer discovered that you just had been on parole and submitted to a particular situation to not eat alcohol. You went again contained in the bar however left by means of the again door. The police apprehended you on foot exterior,” the parole board famous in a abstract of its determination to revoke Grabowski’s launch. “Your invoice, in addition to the waitress, confirmed that you just had been served two photographs of Jameson, an Irish whiskey.

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“You had been then arrested for breach of situation (to not eat alcohol). Whereas conducting a physique search, police present in your jacket a plastic bag containing about 14 grams of cocaine (estimated) and some hundred {dollars}. You had been then suggested that you just had been below arrest for possession of cocaine for the aim of trafficking.

“Whereas in custody, you requested the police to make the medication discovered on you disappear, for which you had been prepared to provide them $10,000. The officers refused.”

On Nov. 8, Grabowski was charged on the Laval courthouse with possessing cocaine with the intent to visitors in it. That case continues to be pending.

His case involving the firearms seized by Montreal police returns to courtroom on Monday.

In one other firearms raid made this month, the Montreal police arrested twin brothers Douglas and Gordon MacNeil, each 57. The brothers stay close to Beaconsfield Excessive Faculty.

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When the raid was carried out in Beaconsfield, investigators seized 4 handguns, two assault weapons, two high-capacity magazines, a submachine gun, a carbine, 15 knives and 4 brass knuckles.

The brothers face expenses of possession of firearms and possession of prohibited weapons with ammunition. They had been each granted a launch in April and their case returns to courtroom on April 4.

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