$100 Million Worth of Gold Reportedly Stolen From Canada’s Biggest Airport

Investigators are stumped at who allegedly stole 3,600 pounds of gold from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, which is Canada’s biggest airport.

3,600 pounds of gold is worth over $100 million, and someone apparently walked out of the airport with that incredibly large stash.

The Peel Regional Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reportedly both investigating how the gold heist happened under the airport’s nose.

#BREAKING: 3,600 pounds of GOLD has been stolen from a highly secured part of Pearson Airport and police don't know who did it. The estimated value of the heist is more than $100 MILLION. pic.twitter.com/KMbFcF9csh

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) April 20, 2023

The Pearson Airport gold heist is considered one of the country’s biggest robberies in history.

BREAKING: It's one of the biggest robberies, in terms of dollar value, in Canadian history.
It sounds like a movie plot but it happened at Pearson Airport. Read & RT https://t.co/1IyZGwFCUN

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) April 20, 2023

Peel Regional Police has enlisted the help of the RCMP following the theft earlier this week in which 3,600lbs of gold — valued at more than $100 million — was stolen. https://t.co/izhjcsTGCU

— Western Standard (@WSOnlineNews) April 20, 2023

Toronto Sun had the story:

Peel Regional Police have enlisted the help of the RCMP following a massive gold heist at Pearson airport. Earlier this week, someone made off with 3,600 pounds of gold being moved through the airport. Pearson is often used to move gold mined in Ontario to customers around the world.

At current spot prices for gold, that would put value of the heist at more than $100 million.

While that sounds like a lot of gold, and it is definitely worth a lot, it could have been smuggled out of the airport in something as simple as a heavy-duty pickup truck.

According to sources, police believe the heist was done locally and are looking at organized crime elements in the region.

Ports of all kinds, air and marine, have long been used by criminal elements to either steal or move stolen goods. Gangs and other organized crime elements work hard to either place their people in jobs at ports, like Pearson, or compromise those already employed there.

Several organized crime groups are known to have either people or allies placed at Pearson, monitoring their activities and controlling them is close to a full-time job.

The truth, though, is that at this point, investigators don’t know who stole the gold. It could be organized crime or it could be someone who took the chance to pull off one of the biggest robberies in Canadian history simply by stumbling upon the situation.

Investigators have no idea who stole the gold.

They have zero clue how the gold was moved out of the airport.

They’re simply shocked how $100+ million of gold vanished.