75-year-old among aging suspected bandits whose $7M smartphone heist was foiled by nuisance tech

For the Brampton bandits, it must have seemed like the score to end all scores: An entire delivery truck packed nose to tail with brand new, high-end smartphones and tablets with a total retail value of almost $7 million. That’s the kind of cash that matters. For a 75-year-old stickup man, it’s retirement money — the kind of haul that can get you out of the game for good.

Investigators laid a total of 63 charges against the six men, including a mix of kidnapping, robbery and gun offences. At a press conference in Mississauga Wednesday, acting Det. Steve Sherwin, the lead investigator, displayed a picture of their six mug shots on a big screen. One of the pictures, on the bottom right of the grid, stuck out. It was the face of Cecil Young, accused stickup artist, armed robber, and man who was alive to see the end of the Second World War.

Sherwin said investigators have so far found no link between the men and any form of organized crime. He did say all were previously known to police and urged anyone, in any other part of Canada, with knowledge of similar crimes, to get in touch, adding that the arrested men had ties to communities across Eastern and Western Canada. “Our purpose today is to get their faces out,” he said.

Go for it, gramps.

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