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Liquid gold bounty: $10K reward offered in maple syrup heist


Maple syrup bottles are seen on a shelf at the Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks in East Montpelier, Vt., on Feb. 25, 2009. (AP / Toby Talbot)

 A trucking company is offering a $10,000 reward for the return of a large batch of maple syrup that was stolen from a holding facility in Montreal.
Police say the sticky-fingered thieves made off with the precious maple syrup overnight on Sunday, using a transport truck to haul the container trailer.
The 20,000 litre-batch of maple syrup was supposed to be shipped to Japan last Thursday, but Mexuscan Transport had been forced to store the shipment at the holding facility due to a delay.
Police recovered the trailer in the west Montreal borough of Saint Laurent, but the maple syrup was gone.
The golden cargo is worth an estimated $150,000.
Alfred Monaco, vice-president of the trucking company Mexuscan, says he's offering a $10,000 reward for the return of the maple syrup because trucking insurance doesn't cover the full cost of the theft.
Although the theft could prove costly for Mexuscan, it's not the sweetest heist ever pulled off in Quebec. That distinction belongs to the massive maple syrup heist of 2011-2012, in which 2.7 million litres of the stuff were stolen from a warehouse in Quebec. The syrup was estimated to be worth $18 million.
More than a dozen individuals were later arrested in the case.Liquid gold bounty: $10K reward offered in maple syrup heist

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