Legendary QPP officer Albert Lisacek dead at 79

Legendary cop Albert Lisacek, who was in the front lines in the battle against one-man-crime spree  Richard "The Cat" Blass and a wave of FLQ terrorists has died at 79.
   He passed away Nov. 20 at the Jewish General Hospital of colon cancer.
   Lisacek, an unsmiling 6'2" 275 lbs Slovakian-Canadian, was involved in several high-profiled events, and might be best known for discovering three FLQ terrorists on December 27, 1970, hiding in a tunnel under a farmhouse in St. Luc, Quebec.
  He was the eldest of four sons -- all strapping lads of six feet and over -- of a onetime Bratislava strongman. They grew up on St. Dominique near Roy.
  Lisacek was a blunt man who did not mind seeing criminals dead. He was annoyed that his partner talked the Rose brothers and Francis Simard out of committing suicide at the scene, but he rarely fired his gun, preferring fisticuffs instead.

  It was said that he shot Richard Blass dead, but in fact he was only in charge of the operation in which the two cops with him shot the little pest dead. Prior to that, Blass, while on the run, had sent cops a picture of himself including a note saying "say hi to Lisacek the French poodle."
  In those years, the strapping Lisacek was routinely threatened by criminals and would arm his wife Claudia with a gun and she'd walk behind him while he walked his dog around their home near Ste. Catherine and Fort.
  He was known to be fearless, arresting Frank Cotroni when his colleagues were too timid to pull out the cuffs on the Mafia boss.
  Lisacek was also surely the only local cop to make the cover of a national magazine, as seen above.
   Lisacek retired from the police force in 1981, at the young age of 48.

  His wife died in 1999 and he remarried Jacqueline Richer, who survives him.
  In his final months Lisacek knew that his colon cancer would kill him within months and he spent much time reading westerns. 

  Longtime friend and journalist Warren Perley recently wrote an excellent 17,000 word profile of Lisacek on his site, it requires payment to read.