For the Brampton bandits, it must have seemed like the score to end all scores: An entire delivery truck packed nose to tail with brand new, high-end smartphones and tablets with a total retail value of almost $7 million. That’s the kind of cash that matters. For a 75-year-old stickup man, it’s retirement money — the kind of haul that can get you out of the game for good.
Their plan went off without a hitch, too. At least at first. The bandits hijacked a truck last March 13 in Brampton, just outside of Toronto, according to Peel Regional Police. They blocked off the truck with a car, held the driver at gunpoint, then drove him and it to a nearby industrial park. There they unloaded the goods — 8,500 devices in total — packed them all into a new truck and drove away.
Easy money. Or so they thought. But the aging bandits of Brampton were in for a surprise.
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