Quebec man sentenced to 16 months for damaging and robbing 65 pay phones
MONTREAL — A Montreal-area man who broke into pay phones 65 times over several months and made off with $6,000 has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.
Laval police say Stephane Sauve, 48, had been detained since his arrest last February as he emptied the contents of a pay phone.
Police spokeswoman Evelyne Boudreau said Sauve, a local resident, was caught with help from Bell Canada’s security team, which installed a computer chip inside a number of phones.
She noted that some phones had been targeted more than once.