Silver(16 tonnes!) heist mystery continues after empty shipping container found(Canada)

cbc.ca ^ | 9-5-15 | CBC News

[dynachrome]

A shipping container stolen from Montreal's port this week may have been found in Repentigny, Que. — but the $10 million in silver inside of it at the time of the heist is nowhere to be found.

The Maersk container lifted from the port was found on Saturday afternoon on St-Paul Street in Repentigny, a small city just off the northeast tip of the island of Montreal.

Search launched for semi-trailer after $10M in silver stolen from Port of Montreal It appears to have been detached from the semi-trailer — also stolen — that was carrying it, and left on the side of a residential street.

The brazen heist began on Wednesday, when one or more individuals stole a semi-trailer from Montreal's west end, drove it to the Port of Montreal, loaded a shipping container carrying 16 tonnes of silver onto it and then took off.

[dynachrome]

Doesn't say whether it was coins or bars or ?

[dynachrome]

Original story about the robbery:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/search-launched-for-semi-trailer-after-10m-in-silver-stolen-from-port-of-montreal-1.3216863

[dynachrome]

ping

[fso301]

[G Larry]

Inside job.

Always is.

[Chode]

ya load 16tons and watta ya get???

[CptnObvious]

Calling CSI. We Need You Horatio.

[JRandomFreeper]

Ernie Ford?

Dad and I used to listen to that song when I was a little whippersnapper.

/johnny

[Flick Lives]

No info on who originally shipped 16 tons of silver in a common freight container. Odd.

[dynachrome]

I was thinking China. someone hiding their stash of illegal gains.

[IronJack]

If you’re hoarding silver, now might be a good time to dump it. If this hits the market all at once, the bottom is about to fall out.

[mad_as_he$$]

OK blam was it you?

[Mean Daddy]

...and replace it with worthless paper? No matter what you bought it for, it always has intrinsic value.

[Chode]

same here, i can still hear him croaking it out

[Lurker]

Brilliant.

[Lazamataz]

Helluva heist. This smacks of the Lufthansa heist, and is only 8 million less (in todays money). Probably a mob move.

[Lazamataz]

ya load 16tons and watta ya get???

....another day older and completely out of debt!

[Chode]

ding ding ding ding... we have a winner, thank you no more calls

[Lazamataz]

You know, another question: WHY THE HELL WAS THIS LEVEL OF CARGO NOT UNDER CONTINUOUS, MULTIPERSON GUARD!!!! AND WHY WAS GPS NOT AFFIXED TO THE CONTAINER, AND CONCEALED AGAIN IN THE CARGO!!!

Something stinks at the corporate level here. Someone way up the chain of command purposefully left this cargo vulnerable.

[MichaelCorleone]

Exactly what I was thinking: the Lufthansa heist.