Maple Syrup, Fool’s Gold
Canada’s biggest gold heist turns out to be less Ocean’s Eleven, more WhatsApp Group Chat with Passports.
Panel of RCMP officers in a ‘Special Gold Heist Task Force’ war room, proudly circling the one guy they caught while a dotted red line on the map goes from Toronto to India and disappears under a giant emoji shrug. On the wall: “Canada’s $20M Gold Heist: We Got… Some of It.”
Source headline
Canada’s largest gold heist: Another suspect arrested in $20-million airport theft, one still hiding in India
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