The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is letting everybody know that they are not to blame for the $20 million worth of gold that was stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, last Monday during the evening hours, because they aren’t in control of the warehouse or the area where the gold was stolen.

Here’s what the GTAA said in a press release, “The GTAA wishes to clarify that thieves accessed the public side of a warehouse that is leased to a third party, outside of our primary security line. This did not involve access to Toronto Pearson itself and did not pose a threat to passengers or GTAA staff.”

As y’all can see, the most important words in the statement are “leased to a third party” and “outside of our primary security line.”
Those words say that the GTAA have their eyes on a group of individuals who they don’t want to know they have their eyes on.

The one thing the police don’t need are the criminals getting wind that the police are hot on their tails because that will most likely lead to the criminals going in a hole that takes the police several years to pull them out of.

Therefore, key information identifying the thieves like the name of the plane that the cargo was flown on, where the plane flew from, the names of the flight crew and passengers, the person leasing the warehouse, and images of the individuals going towards the warehouse will not be shared with the public.

Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Dulvesteyn is working on the case with the GTAA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He told the BBC, “Our goal is to solve this theft. We want to solve it. I cannot provide exact details.” The one thing that is for sure is that whenever they solve the case it will be the largest heist case solved in Canadian history.

Before the gold heist, the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist was the largest heist in Canadian History. From 2011 to 2012, Richard Vallieres and his crew stole over $18 million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.

The reward they got for their also not so good deed was jail time. For his role as the ringleader, ol’ Vallieres , there, got hit with an 8-year prison sentence plus a 9.1 million fine. And just to add a little more spice to the sweet sauce, the courts told Vallieres that he has 10 years to pay the $9.1 million fine. And if he doesn’t pay it, well, an extra 6 more years in “college” is what he will get.

“College”…It’s the place where thieves like Richard Vallieres and his crew and eventually the gold heist thieves go.