Online sales gone wrong: Dominic Saucier returns to prison

Dominic Saucier, this man guilty of manslaughter which occurred in Beauce in 2005, will have to return behind bars for having kidnapped and robbed a citizen during an online transaction which went wrong last fall.

Found guilty of kidnapping, robbery and breach of probation, Dominic Saucier was sentenced to 54 months of detention Tuesday at the Quebec courthouse.

Online sale

On November 8, 2024, the accused and the victim met in Quebec with the aim of concluding the sale of a watch. They had previously exchanged on the online purchasing platform Marketplace.

The two men got into Dominic Saucier’s vehicle, but the latter was unable to make a bank transfer. The ex-inmate therefore asks the buyer if he can take him to another address so that he can get cash, which the buyer refuses.

This is when the transaction turns into a nightmare. The victim says she wants to leave the vehicle, but Dominic Saucier pulls out an air gun and forces her to stay. Dominic Saucier threatens her, alluding to a previous manslaughter he committed in the past.

In 2005, Dominic Saucier stabbed Luc Lachance to death in Saint-Bernard, in Beauce, during a cocaine transaction that went wrong. The accused was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment in 2010.

After discussions, the victim managed to get out of the vehicle and flee.

The accused was finally arrested on January 16 during a muscular intervention by the Tactical Intervention Group of the Quebec City Police Department in the Limoilou sector.

I want to move on

Representing himself without a lawyer, Dominic Saucier promptly admitted his guilt to the three charges against him.

I want to move on, Judgehe repeated several times.

He apologized for the harm he committed towards the victim. “I was agitated,” he said, referring to his drug problems.

The judge accepted the Crown’s recommendation, which suggested a sentence of four and a half years in custody.