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Cargo theft leading to Billions of dollars in losses for
Canadian businesses
Theft of shipping cargo is a major problem in Canada,
Jennifer Fox, vice president of trade and security at
Canadian Trucking Alliance, said. Trucking industry
officials have said cargo theft causes billions of
dollars in losses each year for Canadian businesses, CBC
reported. Ms. Fox said "we had one insurer say it was a
$5 billion Canadian ($4.85 billion) problem," but she
thinks "that's an understatement of how prevalent the
problem is." Trucking firms usually do not report
incidents of cargo thefts as they fear insurance rates
will rise, she said. (Source
businessinsurance.com)
 Hamilton,
Ontario Police investigating 40,000 pounds of meat
stolen; believed to be tied to organized crime
Hamilton police are searching for 40,000 pounds of beef
that was stolen in Ancaster, Ont. last week. Sometime
between Sunday at 5:30 p.m. and Monday at 2:15 p.m., a
commercial truck yard was broken into in on Shaver Road
in Ancaster. Once inside, suspects stole a
tractor-trailer load containing $100,000 worth of beef,
police say. The truck itself was also taken. The
refrigerated beef had been picked up in Texas and
dropped off on Sept. 15. The beef was set to be
delivered to a customer at the start of the week. Police
don’t yet know how the suspects got into the yard. The
investigation is ongoing. This is the second
beef-related robbery in Hamilton this month.
(Source
cbc.ca)
$20,000 in glasses stolen from Laval store in
smash-and-grab
Thieves stole and estimated $20,000 worth of
eyeglasses in a smash-and-grab early Thursday morning in
Laval. At 1:15 a.m. they forced the front door of the
Greiche and Scaff retail outlet in the Ste-Dorothée mall
off Highway 13 and grabbed two stands of glasses, Laval
police said. (Source
montrealgazette.com)
 Vancouver Police arrest two youths in the
armed robbery at the Tom Harris Cellular Store
Two
youths have been arrested and another remains on the
loose after an armed cell phone store robbery in East
Vancouver Monday afternoon. Police said three young
people burst into the Tom Harris Cellular Store on
Rupert St. near Grandview Hwy. at around 3:30 p.m.
brandishing what appeared to be guns. The group stole an
unconfirmed number of cell phones then fled into a
waiting getaway car. Sgt. Randy Fincham said officers
managed to stop a suspect vehicle a short distance from
the store, and three youths ran away from the car. Two
were caught but the third managed to escape. Police have
not confirmed the age, gender or description of the
suspect.
(Source
ctvnews.ca)
Flash Fog devices being installed in GTA
In
an attempt to minimize the loss during a smash and grab,
Flash Fog is a device that clocks the merchandise from
thieves. Using both a thick fog and plasma strobe light
makes it rather impossible for the assailants to see.
The Flash Fog is about the size of a computer and sits
on a wall or inside a false ceiling. Because it's
wireless, it works even if alarm lines are cut. The
strobe light resembles a small, regular lamp, and a
single Flash Fog can fill a 700-sq.-ft. store and costs
less than $2,600 to install.
(Source
mississauga.com)
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