A fake police truck that was used in robbery is transported on a flat-bed truck in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Authorities at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport say eight armed men raided a terminal and escaped with some 750 kilos of gold.
While an airport gold heist might sound more like a movie plot than real life, the headline-making heist at Toronto's Pearson International Airport isn't the first time it's happened. Here are a few other notable examples.Speaking at a news conference Thursday evening, Peel Regional Police said $20 million worth of gold and other high value items were stolen after being offloaded from a plane earlier this week at Toronto's Pearson Airport.
Instead, the bars were taken away by what the Globe and Mail described as "two men with the Goldfinger touch." The Globe and Mail reported that a man dressed in an Air Canada uniform forced a security guard at gunpoint to let the man and another robber gain access to a freight office and then the gold.
Reporter Brian Stewart had the details on the dramatic robbery that occurred at the Brink's-Mat warehouse, near London's Heathrow Airport.
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