God, this story is so Canadian. He keeps setting off the metal detectors and they continue to let him through.
I'm just glad he didn't try to cram them all up there at the same time.
Story out of Ottawa, Ontario:
A former Royal Canadian Mint employee has been found guilty of smuggling $165,000 worth of gold from the building on Sussex Drive — apparently in his rectum, an Ottawa judge ruled Wednesday morning.
Leston Lawrence "clearly had the opportunity" to steal the gold because he often worked alone and the security cameras would not have caught him slipping gold pucks into his pocket, Justice Peter Doody ruled.
"His locker contained Vaseline and latex gloves, which could have been used to insert a puck into his rectum," he ruled, adding that there were no cameras in the locker room.
Lawrence set off the mint's walk-through metal detectors more than any other employee without a metal implant — 28 times between December 2014 and March 2015, court heard. But when a secondary check with handheld detectors failed to alert guards to the gold, Lawrence was able to leave with it each time, Doody found.
Though there was no video evidence of Lawrence stealing the gold from the mint, Lawrence was found guilty of the theft of 22 gold "pucks" worth $165,000, and laundering 18 of them via Ottawa Gold Buyers.
Experts analyzed the gold pucks, and found that they matched the purity of gold at the mint (albeit a little ripe). The pucks were identical in diameter to those produced at the mint, and fit (ha) the ladle used exclusively by the mint perfectly, Doody's decision detailed. Cont.
Story from - CBC News
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