How the cops cracked the $24M Pearson gold heist | The Big Story
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This is one that even the police say will be a Netflix miniseries someday. On April 17, 2023, more than $20 million in gold was stolen from Pearson airport in Toronto. Nobody was hurt, and the crooks got away. It was one of those kinds of thefts. You can picture the scene in your head.
Exactly one year later though, police announced arrests, including those of two Air Canada employees, making clear they believe it was at least partly an inside job. How did the crooks pull off the initial caper? How did the cops catch them? What happened to the gold, and who will play whom in the adaptation?
GUEST: Andy Takagi, reporter, The Toronto Star
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This might not be the largest heist. Go back more than 50 years when a safe encased with several feet of concrete that was considered impenetrable was broken into in Vancouver. Few, if any clients carried insurance for which there was no apparent need. Safe from fire. Secure from theft. Beyond the gaze of suspicious authorities that might discover through the amount of an insurance policy that certain individuals possessed objects whose value were of interest, matching that lost to crime. No one paid any attention to the roar of the compressor and pounding of jackhammers that was working on a building two doors away on a weekend. Chances are that the security system was shut off after nearby construction triggered several false alarms. Millions were lost. Adjust that amount for inflation.
6600 one-ounce bars. Second largest gold heist in Canadian history
Will they be charged with organized crime???
LOL out on bail already!
I know it's a wrong video, but His birthday is tomorrow.
All our boys got bails don’t worry they all are enjoying the meal 🥘 with their families… I hope they will be an inspiration for lot of young.. thank you Justin Trudeau 😅😅😅😅
This was Awesome! Let's see how it all plays out after all 😊
Fun fact ,when i was a teenager in the 80's ,gold was less than $200 an ounce
Namaskar : who is responsible for gold heists in Guyana ? Including my house ;while during the case, a foreign dignitary was seen conversing with one of the thieves at Caricom building
Getting 9 thousand back out of 20 million. The gold was melted down you could have it on your finger , around your neck 😮
Wasn’t it 1639kg? (100m) worth of gold if I recall correctly, and now it’s 24m? Send them all to prison but no they let them flee to india
If I was 30yrs younger with a zest for chance I may have taken these odds .... Hide my share of the gold ...even if you got caught what's the worse that Canadian law could do to you if convicted . 10yrs at best + 1/3rd off for good time. That's more than 150k per yr for doing easy time .... not that bad of an offer and coming out rich if you are smart .... Thanks Justin ... making the go big or go home deal sound a whole lot more attractive to our next generation, Not to mention immigrating to Canada a whole lot more attractive !!
CBC romanticising organized crime. Same people infiltrating Air Canada were caught smuggling automatic weapons. Who do you think were going to be the ultimate customers of those weapons and what do you think they were going to use them for?
They’ll be out jail already
Easy......we let the Americans take care of the problem. We were more worried about giving the OTHER 5 criminals bail.....5 MINUTES after they got arrested.🤣
Or devoting all policing to people misgendering other people, while delivering coffee and donuts to terrorists blocking GTA bridges and roads.
Bangagan na. FL is the real power behind her honey BBM, and it is extended to running thw country. So good luck na lang sa atin sa Pilipinas.
A random 'traffic stop' is how this got 'cracked'. This does nothing but enforces the 'carding' method of policing.