Theft of A-25 bridge payments

A clerk preparing to bring a cash deposit bag filled with the day’s receipts from Autoroute 25 bridge subscriptions was robbed last week in the parking lot of the bridge’s administration building on Lévesque Blvd. East. Inside the bag, according to Di Genova, was around $10,000, although about 75 per cent of it was in the form of paper cheques.
Although he didn’t know if the company that operates the bridge is taking any new measures to protect itself from similar occurrences, he gave the police’s standard advice: don’t send the same person to send deposits on the same day each week, as this only encourages criminals to watch closely and take advantage of the pattern.
“Change your times, change your dates, change vehicles,” he said, “make another person go, accompany the first person with another person, but using another vehicle.” Delivery of the receipts to the bank by an armored truck would also seem a good piece of advice in this situation.