More than $15 million, price of gold and different valuables was stolen from an airplane cargo container in Toronto final week, police mentioned.

A airplane landed within the early night of April 17 on the Toronto Pearson International Airport, and a cargo container was offloaded from the plane and moved to a holding cargo facility, the place it was stolen, Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn said at a news conference.

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority mentioned the thieves entered a public warehouse that’s leased to a 3rd occasion.

“This did not involve access to Toronto Pearson itself and did not pose a threat to passengers or GTAA staff,” it mentioned.

Peel police are at present investigating, however mentioned they imagine that is an remoted occasion.

“For the traveling public that are concerned about coming and flying out, that they should have no concern,” Duivesteyn mentioned. “We do not consider this a public safety matter and that everybody can feel assured that operations are running smoothly.”

“Our goal right now is to solve this theft,” he mentioned. “So as you can appreciate, a lot of the intimate details I can’t provide because our team is assembled. They are working diligently on this case and we want to solve it.”