Toronto Pearson gold heist: Peel Regional Police set to announce arrests
Global News
The heist, which saw $20 million worth of gold and other “high-value” items stolen at Canada’s largest airport, drew international attention at the time.
Peel Regional Police is set to provide an update Wednesday morning into last year’s high-profile gold heist at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The Toronto-area police force, as well as the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, said in a news release Tuesday that the update will involve “details and arrests made concerning the theft of gold from Pearson International Airport.”
The update is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. and will be livestreamed on globalnews.ca.
The heist, which saw $20 million worth of gold and other “high-value” items stolen at Canada’s largest airport, drew international attention at the time.
The public first became aware of it on April 20, 2023; the heist occurred three days earlier.
At the time, Peel Regional Police Insp. Stephen Duivesteyn said an aircraft carrying the precious cargo landed at Pearson, and its cargo was transported to a holding facility where it was “removed by illegal means.”
“We’re looking at all angles on how this item was stolen, so I don’t really have a lot of details on how it was stolen to provide or any suspect,” Duivesteyn told reporters on April 20, 2023.
He didn’t say which airline shipped the cargo, where the cargo was headed, or where the plane came from.
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