{"id":792100,"date":"2026-07-10T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792100\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:00:16","slug":"toronto-pearson-gold-heist-charges-against-one-accused-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792100\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Pearson gold heist: Charges against one accused withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charges against a Georgetown man that were laid in connection with a 2023 gold heist at Toronto Pearson Airport have been dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ontario Ministry of Attorney General said the charges against Ammad Chaudhary were dropped on April 9 at the Brampton Superior Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is unknown why they were withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chaudhary was one of nine individuals believed to be behind the April 17, 2023, heist of $20 million worth of gold bars at Pearson\u2019s Air Canada cargo facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege one suspect came into possession of the stolen gold and $2.5 million in bank notes after presenting Air Canada personnel with a fraudulent airway bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators have said they believe the suspects melted the stolen gold and sold it to fund illegal activities, including the purchase of illegal firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges against a Georgetown man that were laid in connection with a 2023 gold heist at Toronto Pearson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-792100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}