Montreal police link crime spree to ex-con whose sentence had recently ended

When most people in the city were doing their best to stay indoors to avoid the freezing weather that greeted the new year, the Montreal police began to notice an unusual trend. 
Three convenience stores in LaSalle were robbed within 30 minutes during the evening of Jan. 2. As police officers began gathering information from each robbery, they realized clerks in each store described the robber in the same way. The investigation progressed and police soon realized they were looking for the s