Montreal bagpiper's ceremonial knife returned, case dropped

Jeff McCarthy has his knife back.
On Monday, the Montreal bagpiper walked into Police Station 50 on Ste-Catherine St. E., filled out the paperwork and was handed his sgian-dubh (pronounced skee-an do).
In November 2016, while on break from performing at a McGill convocation ceremony at Place des Arts, McCarthy was stopped by police and handed a $221 ticket for wearing the small, ceremonial Scottish knife in his kilt hose sock as part of his traditional piping attire. The sgian-dubh was confiscat