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When Gatineau police officers got a routine call to check out a suspicious person Monday night they ended up with an unexpected collar – a man who’s been in the lam for nearly two decades in connection with a massive money-laundering scheme that included the shipment of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine for organized crime.

Officers were called by an alert citizen to an area near the intersection of Saint-Raymond and Cité-des-Jeunes boulevards.

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They spotted a man who matched the description they’d been given.

They took him into custody and learned he was Norman “Max” Rosenblum, 65.

In 1995, Rosenblum was sentenced to 13 years for his involvement in a complicated $25-million money-laundering scheme involving the shipment of 558 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to Great Britain.

Hie was arrested along with about 30 others following a massive RCMP investigation into the Montreal underworld.