A 54-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Friday’s spectacular heist of a Garda truck in Pointe-Claire.
Joseph Evrard appeared in court on Monday where he was charged with eight counts connected to the theft.
According to Evrard's indictment, two Garda employees were held at gunpoint. The suspects then used a pay loader, stolen the day before, to ram the back of an armoured truck on Holiday Ave., getting away with $200,000.
During Evrard's arrest on Sunday, police said they found $17,000, along with other peices of evidence.
The suspect has long been known to police, with a criminal record dating back to 1980. He is best known for a failed truck heist in Dorval in 2001 that would have netted him and his brother Norman $4 million.
That attempted crime saw the two cut through a truck with blow torches. The plot was foiled after they triggered a fire alarm, forcing them to flee.
Lawyer Alan Guttman, who represented Evrard in court on Monday, was his attorney at that time as well. Guttman got his client off on a charge of simple theft, despite the spectacular circumstances.
"I was convinced it was a simple theft because there was nobody in the truck and you cannot commit an armed robbery on an object. It's impossible," he said.
Evrard will appear in court on Tuesday for a bail hearing. Another suspect is still at large.
