Police search missing Park-Extension woman’s home

Montreal police believe Josiane Arguin was the victim of a homicide, the Montreal Gazette has learned.

Police have set up a command post and on Thursday were conducting a meticulous search of the home of the 34-year-old ParkExtension woman who has been missing since Sept. 1.

Josiane Arguin reportedly left her home on d’Anvers St. in ParkExtension around 8 a.m. that day without taking any belongings. At the time, police said her family feared for her safety because she had expressed suicidal thoughts in the past and because they say she may be mixing with bad company.

But since Wednesday, a mobile police command post has been set up in front of that home and on Thursday morning, the windows of the small, single-family dwelling had been covered with black plastic tarps and access to the site sealed off. Investigators were also examining the backyard of the home.

Montreal police were saying little about the operation Thursday morning, reiterating that for the time being, the case remained a missing persons investigation.

Arguin is white, with long, wavy brown hair and stands 5-foot-3. She weighs 130 pounds and speaks French. At the time of her disappearance, Arguin was wearing a white camisole, a grey hooded sweater with a Nike logo on the front upper left corner, casual black pants and Champion-brand black sneakers. She has a tattoo of a bird and other designs from her hip to right shoulder blade.

Anyone with information is asked to phone 911 or local police, or leave information at infocrimemontreal.ca or at 514-393-1133.