Canada: $15m Worth Of Gold, Other Valuables Stolen In Toronto Airport Heist
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Peel Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn speaking at the Toronto Pearson international airport.The Canadian Press / Alamy Live News
The incident appears to represent one of Canada’s biggest heists, but it is not the first to unfold at one of the country’s airports.
In 1990, another Canadian airport heist made headlines after armed thieves ambushed a private plane and made off with nearly $13.7 million in gold ingots and other valuables, according to past reporting from The Associated Press. The incident was considered one of Canada’s largest robberies at the time.
That heist, carried out at Dorval International Airport outside Montreal, reportedly saw at least four men, including one armed with a Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifle, use a stolen garbage truck to tear through a fence, before making off with the goods in stolen vans. A pipe bomb had also exploded miles away under an airport construction trailer, in what police had called a “diversion tactic” at the time.
In 1952, an apparent heist at Malton Airport, which preceded the Toronto Pearson international airport, saw gold bars valued at a total of $215,000 in Canadian currency at the time vanish in a crime that remains unsolved, according to The Toronto Star.
Monday’s heist has also drawn references to the maple syrup heist of 2012, which saw nearly 3,000 tons of syrup valued at $18.7 million in Canadian currency stolen from a storage facility in Quebec, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
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LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Peel Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn speaking at the Toronto Pearson international airport.The Canadian Press / Alamy Live News
The incident appears to represent one of Canada’s biggest heists, but it is not the first to unfold at one of the country’s airports.
In 1990, another Canadian airport heist made headlines after armed thieves ambushed a private plane and made off with nearly $13.7 million in gold ingots and other valuables, according to past reporting from The Associated Press. The incident was considered one of Canada’s largest robberies at the time.
That heist, carried out at Dorval International Airport outside Montreal, reportedly saw at least four men, including one armed with a Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifle, use a stolen garbage truck to tear through a fence, before making off with the goods in stolen vans. A pipe bomb had also exploded miles away under an airport construction trailer, in what police had called a “diversion tactic” at the time.
In 1952, an apparent heist at Malton Airport, which preceded the Toronto Pearson international airport, saw gold bars valued at a total of $215,000 in Canadian currency at the time vanish in a crime that remains unsolved, according to The Toronto Star.
Monday’s heist has also drawn references to the maple syrup heist of 2012, which saw nearly 3,000 tons of syrup valued at $18.7 million in Canadian currency stolen from a storage facility in Quebec, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
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