Toronto Pearson's most recent gold heist, wasn't its first. Here's what happened then
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The multi-million-dollar heist that happened at Toronto Pearson International Airport this week is not the first of its kind to take place on their grounds.
The multi-million-dollar heist that happened at Toronto Pearson International Airport this week is not the first of its kind to take place on their grounds.
On Monday, police said a total of $20 million worth of gold and other high-value goods were reported stolen from a holding cargo facility at Toronto Pearson.
The details of what happened are, so far, sparse. A source familiar with the investigation confirmed to CTV News Toronto the stolen cargo was taken from an Air Canada plane, and its cargo operations were in possession of the high-value goods when they disappeared.
Peel Regional Police has not named any suspects and said this sort of thing is a “very rare” occurrence.
But Toronto Pearson has been the scene for a Hollywood movie-esque gold heist before – roughly 70 years ago – and it still remains a mystery to this day.
“It’s really eerie, it’s like Mark Twain allegedly said, ‘History may not repeat, but it does rhyme,’” Scott Selby, co-author of “Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History” told CTV News Toronto Friday.
“In 1952, gold poured out of the mines in northern Ontario to smelters in Toronto, and that’s where they turned it into 22-carat industrial quality gold bars,” Selby said.
