According to the New York Daily News, a bandit ran off with over $1 million worth of gold after swiping a barrel from an armored truck in Midtown, police sources said yesterday.
The theft went down on W. 48th St. near Fifth Ave. Thursday afternoon, when two guards on a Loomis International truck making a pick-up in the Diamond District noticed that one five-gallon drum of gold flakes – part of a larger shipment headed to Canada – was missing.
The 86-pound tin of precious metals, valued at around $1,565,000, was part of a delivery meant to end up in Ontario with a company called Asahi Refining, sources said.
The truck’s surveillance cameras caught a suspect lifting a container and sprinting off east on 48th St, sources said.
Four 55-gallon pails of silver and four other five-gallon containers of gold were untouched.
Police sources described the suspect as a Hispanic man wearing a black vest over a green shirt, and carrying a black messenger bag.
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