A 54-year-old man who was picked up in connection with a spectacular armored car robbery in Pointe Claire on Friday has a criminal record going back decades.
Joseph Evrard was in court on Monday to answer to eight charged in connection with the Garda truck heist.
The indictment suggests two Garda employees were held at gun point behind a Home Depot store on Holiday Ave. in Pointe Claire, while an accomplice used a stolen front-end loader to ram the back of the armored truck.
It's believed Evrard managed to get away with around $200,000 before he was arrested. His accomplice remains at large.
If he's convicted, he could face life in prison.
Evrard has a criminal record dating back to 1980, and in recent years, he appears to have made armored car robberies his specialty.
In 2002, he was sent to prison for a failed armored car heist in Dorval the year before which would have netted him and his brother, Norman, close to $4 million had it been successful.
They tried to cut through an armored truck with blow torches before they tripped a fire alarm and were forced to flee. Some of the cash they had hoped to make off with was actually burned.
In 2008, Evrard was sent to prison again for a similar robbery attempt — this time, against an armored car outside a Costco store in Brossard in 2006.