U.S. student offers $5,000 reward for PhD data stolen in Montreal

With the smash of an SUV window on Saturday, a thief or thieves made off with years of Neil Kohan’s work.
The PhD student, visiting Montreal from Syracuse, N.Y., has spent years collecting and analyzing data related to wood-products engineering.
He’s offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who returns the stolen thumb drives, laptops and handwritten notebook that contain his PhD work.
On Saturday, around noon, he and his family packed up an Audi SUV and went to say goodbye to the aun