{"id":797795,"date":"2026-07-12T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:13:16","slug":"19-year-old-stopped-with-replica-firearm-aboard-rem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797795\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old stopped with replica firearm aboard REM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police response to reports of a firearm aboard a REM train temporarily disrupted service Saturday evening after the weapon was found to be a replica.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Police (SPVM) said officers were dispatched shortly after 7:30 p.m. following several 911 calls from passengers who believed they had seen a firearm on the train.<\/p>\n<p>Officers intercepted the train at Ville-de-Mont-Royal Station, where they located a 19-year-old man carrying what was later identified as an airsoft gun.<\/p>\n<p>Police determined no criminal offence had occurred, and no charges were laid. The man was released after officers educated him about the risks of carrying a replica firearm in public, where it can easily be mistaken for a real weapon.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation briefly delayed REM service while officers secured the scene before trains returned to normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police response to reports of a firearm aboard a REM train temporarily disrupted service Saturday evening after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-797795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}