Gold Theft

• Container with $20M in gold, ‘high value’ items stolen in Toronto Pearson airport heist

  Peel Regional Police  Insp. Stephen Duivesteyn said an aircraft landed at Toronto Pearson Airport on the evening of April 17.

  Canada

  Apr 20, 2023
  
• 750 kg of gold and other metals ⁠— worth US$40M ⁠— stolen from Brazil airport

  A police report said the thieves left with about 750 kg (1,650 lbs) of gold and other precious metals, along with two airport workers taken as hostages, and remained at large.

  Crime

  Jul 25, 2019
  
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• Ex-Mint employee found guilty of smuggling gold nuggets in rectum

  A former Royal Canadian Mint employee has been convicted of theft for smuggling $165,000 in gold "pucks", likely in his rectum.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2016
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• Royal Canadian Mint employee accused of using rectum to smuggle $180,000 in gold

  Leston Lawrence is accused of smuggling $180K worth of gold through an age-old smuggler's method: up his rear end.

  Crime

  Sep 21, 2016