MONTREAL COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM SCHOOLCBC Montreal - Police chase takes byte out of crimeWeb Posted | Mar 15 2004 07:53 AM EST

Police chase takes byte out of crime
MONTREAL - Three suspects are in custody Monday following a police chase that began at a Park Extension school and ended with stolen computers flung from the speeding vehicle.


When police officers showed up at the school on de l'Epée Street Sunday night, the three suspects took off in their car, drove east on Highway 40, and then south on Highway 25.

Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafrenière said that's when they began throwing stolen computer equipment out of their vehicle.

"They were literally dropping the computers out the window," he said.

Lafrenière said the suspects were likely trying to get rid of evidence and slow down the police cars that were in pursuit.

The driver of the car lost control at the Louis H. Lafontaine hospital, and that's where police caught up with them.

Lafrenière said the three face charges of break-and-enter, possession of stolen goods, and provoking a police chase.