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Fugitive pilot Normand Dubé surrendered to authorities Wednesday evening at a police station in Mascouche, bringing to a close a manhunt that had been going on for six weeks, reports said.
Dubé, described as the “pilot to the stars” in Quebec media after transporting celebrities in his plane, surrendered to police around 6:30 p.m., the Journal de Montréal reported. He was taken in by investigators from the Sûreté du Québec’s Major Crimes Section, La Presse said.
Dubé was listed on the province’s most wanted list.
On Monday, the Quebec Court of Appeal rejected all of his appeals in his absence.
Dubé, who was convicted in an aerial attack on Hydro-Québec power lines, had failed to report to a detention centre after the appeals court revoked his bail.
He had been appealing two convictions, including one for the attack on Hydro-Québec lines in 2014 for which he was sentenced in 2018 to seven years in prison. The attack cost the public utility $28.6 million and plunged 180,000 people into darkness.
He was also found guilty of arson and of making threats against civil servants in a separate case.
The court ruled Monday it has the discretion to dismiss an appeal when a party does not respect its commitments and flouts the court’s authority. Dubé had been missing since before Christmas and police believed he was hiding out in northern Quebec.
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