3 arrested in massive maple syrup heist
December 18th, 2012
01:06 PM ET

3 arrested in massive maple syrup heist

Much of a huge cache of maple syrup snatched from a Quebec storage facility has been recovered, police say.

Three people have been arrested and five others are being sought in connection with the theft from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec Provincial Police said in a statement Tuesday. The theft occurred between August 2011 and July 2012, police said.

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  1. Joel

    These gentlemen have certainly got themselves into a very sticky situation, here. There is no time for waffling about when you commit a crime like this. Even stupid cons know if you move like molasses you can't expect to get away.

    December 21, 2012 at 5:25 pm | Report abuse |
    • Mike

      Best comment ever.

      December 25, 2012 at 8:26 am | Report abuse |
    • Charlotte cottonhill

      Thank heavens for a sense of humor; that was poetic!; nothing like putting a funny spin on a non-harmful situation...eeks.... sorry, except for the business owners and/or their insurance companies..... Happy holidays all!!!

      December 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm | Report abuse |
    • Dandude

      Not a single one of those puns were funny, fail

      December 25, 2012 at 12:56 pm | Report abuse |
    • Tiff

      LOL! That was great! Corny, but that's what makes it funny 🙂

      December 25, 2012 at 1:56 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Thomas

    Thanks for taking all the good ones, Joel! Now I'm just hungry >: |

    December 22, 2012 at 7:13 am | Report abuse |
  3. dan89

    Maple syrup is more precious than oil these men should be executed!

    December 22, 2012 at 11:07 pm | Report abuse |
  4. miguel

    They were trying to drive the price up by creating a canadian maple syrup shortage. This stuff is the creme de la creme.

    December 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm | Report abuse |
    • Hakan

      Thanks for the post Verity.The histogram cofnirms just how exceptional the month of Dec was.At the depth of the cold I travelled between Crumlin and Antrim a journey of about 8 Miles and was astonished to observe double-digit subzero temps the whole way in the afternoon! (OK my car's thermometer isn't calibrated, but I would think it should be within +/- 1 C)No one here remembers such unrelenting cold fortunately no water pipes froze and so far the water supply has not been interrupted.

      January 2, 2013 at 1:07 pm | Report abuse |
  5. Tommy

    Thank God, they spared the bacon.

    December 24, 2012 at 12:34 am | Report abuse |
  6. Albert Leo

    I've got you covered! Get up, sir, up!

    December 24, 2012 at 10:30 pm | Report abuse |
  7. John

    Was Buddy the Elf ever a suspect?

    December 25, 2012 at 4:57 am | Report abuse |
  8. What

    "If you make syrup, you didn't make that!"

    December 25, 2012 at 12:53 pm | Report abuse |
  9. Roflmywaffles

    A little low on stories here CNN? THIS JUST IN, YOUR MAPLE SYRUP MAY BE AT RISK.

    December 25, 2012 at 1:16 pm | Report abuse |
    • Sharon

      Would you rather news aoout yet another killing spree? And that maple syrup heist meant a lot of economic woes for the producers, etc. so it was big news for them.

      December 25, 2012 at 1:41 pm | Report abuse |
  10. mike

    this is why im so happy to be canadian, we turn on american news and people are getting killed, massacred at schools, house fires yet canadian news, maple syrup heist

    God Bless Canada

    December 25, 2012 at 1:34 pm | Report abuse |
  11. Ezo

    Sweet!

    December 26, 2012 at 5:21 am | Report abuse |
  12. dennycraneesq

    You notice nobody ever steals the fake ("pancake syrup") stuff. Real maple syrup.

    December 26, 2012 at 2:05 pm | Report abuse |
  13. maggie

    I just want some gluten free pancakes with some real maple syrup.....this story just makes me hungry

    December 28, 2012 at 12:35 am | Report abuse |
  14. berney47

    Sometimes a sweet tooth can get the best of us.

    December 29, 2012 at 9:27 am | Report abuse |
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