A convicted robber who had been on the lam for more than six years has been returned to a penitentiary after being discovered in Dorval.
Paul Husbands, 52, was arrested by Montreal police officers who were working undercover after they received a tip that the convict could be located at a business in Dorval.
Husbands was arrested Wednesday morning without incident at a business on De l’Eglise Ave., said Sgt. Ronald McInnis, a spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec. McIniss said he did not know whether Husbands was working at the location where he was arrested.
Husbands was immediately returned to the custody of Correctional Service Canada. He was on a leave from the Montée St. François Institution, a minimum-security penitentiary in Laval, when he failed to return from an unescorted leave on June 29, 2008. He was serving an aggregate sentence of more than 23 years at the time. The sentence began on Feb. 5, 1992, and was extended to 23 years as Husbands reoffended.
His most recent conviction was on June 10, 2002, when he pleaded guilty to armed robbery at the Valleyfield courthouse. He was sentenced to a 6-year prison term which was folded into a sentence he was already serving when, on June 7, 2000, he and an accomplice used firearms to rob a bank in Huntingdon.
Husbands is currently charged, in Laval, with being at large without excuse.
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