A man who was part of a car-theft ring that stole vehicles from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport was sentenced Thursday to a 40-month prison term following his guilty pleas in more than a dozen cases.
Last summer, Antenin Lubin Touon, 21, a resident of Côte-des-Neiges, pleaded guilty in 17 different cases brought against him at the Montreal courthouse between 2022 and 2025.
That included six guilty pleas to motor vehicle theft and a few counts related to dangerous driving. He also pleaded guilty to multiple counts of possessing stolen property, credit card theft and laundering the proceeds of crime.
On Thursday, Quebec Court Judge Nathalie Fafard agreed with a common suggestion, made by the Crown and defence lawyer Ramy El-Turaby, that Touon receive a 40-month sentence for all his crimes.
With time served factored into the sentence, Touon has more than 10 months left to serve as of Thursday.
In August 2024, he was arrested along with five other people as part of an investigation by the Montreal police.
At the time, police told reporters the network stole approximately 30 vehicles from parking lots at the airport in Dorval. The crimes Touon admitted to last summer went beyond what he was charged with along with the five other members of the network.
A few of the other members of the network are scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
“Despite the number of cases that are before you today, (Touon) has no priors,” El-Turaby told the judge while explaining the common suggestion made on the sentence. “Mr. Touon, along with his parents, has addressed certain problems that he had, among other things a serious gambling problem.
“It doesn’t excuse what happened, but it explains it.”
The defence lawyer said Touon was 19 when he started stealing cars and plans to return to school to complete a college degree.
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