{"id":921307,"date":"2026-10-05T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921307\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:04:10","slug":"trial-set-to-begin-for-man-accused-in-massive-gold-heist-at-torontos-pearson-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921307\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial set to begin for man accused in massive gold heist at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791191050_332_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police officers open the back of a recovered truck during a press conference regarding Project 24K a joint investigation into the theft of gold from Pearson International Airport, in Brampton, Ont., on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Arlyn McAdorey<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 5, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BRAMPTON \u2014 A trial is set to begin today in Brampton, Ont., for a man accused in what investigators have called one of the largest gold heists in Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p>Parmpal Sidhu is charged with theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence in the 2023 heist that took place at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport.<\/p>\n<p>The trial comes soon after prosecutors dropped the charges against two other men accused in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Crown withdrew charges against Ali Raza, a jeweller who had been accused of knowingly receiving some of the stolen gold, and Amit Jalota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers open the back of a recovered truck during a press conference regarding Project 24K a joint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-921307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921307","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=921307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}