A Montreal police officer has been suspended for 25 days without pay after forging a court document in order to obtain information leading to the arrest of a high-profile killer in 2019.
Officer Guillaume Joly-Tessier used a stamp of a justice of the peace without her knowledge during a meeting in her office to authorize a warrant, according to a recent decision by Quebec’s police ethics tribunal.
He requested it in 2019 during the SPVM’s “Megalo II” operation aimed at arresting Frédérick Silva, a hitman wanted in connection with four murders and one attempted murder that spanned a 22-month period beginning on Feb. 21, 2017.
Frederick Silva, one of Quebec’s most wanted criminals, was arrested by police in Montreal, Que. (Montreal police)
An administrative judge condemned his actions, ruling that he violated the code of ethics that governs officers in the province.
“If we look only at the act committed, …