Safe-cracking Montreal burglar specialized in robbing universities

A thief who recently admitted he got a thrill out of breaking into universities in Quebec and Ontario for years has been denied parole, in part because authorities learned he was able to secretly operate a company while serving the 29-month prison term he received last year.
Over the past decade, Gerald Lawson Nicholls, 55, has broken into several universities and other educational institutions between Waterloo, Ont., and Trois-Rivières, a 760-kilometre stretch that runs from Highway 40 i