A 48-year-old man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after robbing 65 public telephones in the greater Montreal area.
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Police in Laval, north of Montreal, say Stephane Suave had been detained since his arrest last February as he was emptying the contents of a pay phone.
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Evelyne Boudreau says the arrest came with help from Bell Canada’s security team which caught the thief by installing a computer chip inside various phones.
She says an investigation began in June 2016 following a number of police reports about public phones and telephone booths being broken into.
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Boudreau says 37 public phones in Laval were robbed, while Sauve, who was sentenced on Wednesday, was also charged in connection with 28 similar incidents in Montreal.
Police say $6,000 was stolen and damage was estimated at $109,000.
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