Load tracking leads police to truckjacking suspects
TORONTO — Police arrested seven members of a known cargo theft gang after a truck driver was held up at gunpoint.
Several armed and masked assailants allegedly smashed the driver’s side window at a distribution facility and forced the driver into the sleeper cab, according to an account by the Ontario Trucking Association.
The suspects reportedly disabled the GPS system before driving off with the tractor-trailer, which was loaded with tobacco products. The thieves released the truck driver in Toronto, where he called police.
But little did they know that a separate tracking device was embedded in the load. The technology led Peel’s Regional Theft Task Force (PRTTF) to the stolen product on a facility believed to be connected to the crime.
Over $2 million of stolen products from several thefts were recovered, including the load of tobacco.
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