Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Aug 4, 2026
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Boy, 15, arrested after fire set outside St-Michel triplex
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MONTREAL CRIME
Boy, 15, arrested after fire set outside St-Michel triplex
No one was injured in the fire, police say.
(Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette)
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Montreal Gazette
August 4, 2026 at 6:49 a.m.
Last Updated: August 4, 2026 at 1:57 p.m.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a fire was deliberately set outside the entrance of a St-Michel triplex early Tuesday morning, Montreal police said.
Police said the teen was arrested following an investigation and is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Quebec youth court.
First responders were alerted to the fire on 10th Ave. near Legendre St. by…
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