BLAINVILLE — Real Lemay is a 15-year veteran of the Therese-de-Blainville Police department.
Two weeks ago, he was fired for violating the force’s Code of Ethics.
Global News has learned the former sargeant-detective allegedly shared sensitive and privileged information with a female suspect in a case where he was acting as a lead investigator.
“The 43-year-old was a member of the force’s drug enforcement unit,” says Claude Vigneault, assistant-director of the Therese-de-Blainville Police department.
A disciplinary complaint was filed against Lemay last November.
Police won’t say who made the complaint.
After an exhaustive internal probe, he was relieved of his duties March 18 th.
Real Lemay is also facing two criminal charges: breach of trust by a police officer and the unauthorized use of a computer.
If convicted of the latter charge, by law he faces up to 10 years behind bars.
He returns to the St-Jerome Courthouse in June.
Retired police officer John Galianos says stories like these affect all cops.
“You have to live in a glass house when you’re a cop,” says Galianos.
“You can’t steal at the scene of a crime, you can’t steal when you’re in a search. You have to be clean.”
Despite Lemay’s alleged activities, Vigneault told Global News it will not affect any of the criminal cases he was working on.
In similar files in the past, it has.
Last January, gun charges against reputed Montreal mobster Tony Mucci were dropped after the lead investigator in his case, Philippe Paul, was suspended for possibly selling information to criminals.
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