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Police are asking for the public’s help after a man allegedly stole a $26,000 bottle of scotch from an LCBO store on April 7.
Police said the man walked into the LCBO store at 2 Cooper St. at Queens Quay just before 2 p.m. and took a 700 ml bottle of 50-year-old single malt Glenfiddich from a glass case in the store’s vintage section.
The man continued shopping and also chose a bottle of wine. Police said he paid for the wine, but not the scotch. The next day, the scotch was discovered missing. The bottle in one of only 15 in Ontario and 50 in the world, police said.
Police described the suspect as five-foot-ten, between 35 and 45 years old and clean shaven with black framed glasses. He was last seen wearing a brown hat, brown trench coat, black jeans and a Burberry plaid shirt.
Torontoblue wrote:I thought all the expensive stuff was behind LOCKED glass doors?
The last time I bought one of those locked glass door items I didn't get to carry it around the store ($200 price), the LCBO employee took it straight to the cash register to hold it for me until I was ready to pay. Must not have happened for that pricey scotch. Oops!
Any employee repercussions for something like that?
Most of the stores here put the actual product behind the glass. Think there's one of these in Wine & Beyond and it's the real thing.
Wonder if it was either a disgruntled (ex)employee, or someone carelessly left the glass door open....how else would this person get the bottle? I can't see them just handing the bottle over to a customer, and then let them roam around the store...what if they dropped the bottle whilst browsing.
It doesn't really add up. Or am I looking at it too much?
The article says he "selected" the bottle...which to me means there was an employee there helping him choose / unlocking the glass for him.
It does seem odd that they would allow the person to handle such a bottle while walking around the store.
Perhaps a careless employee, or perhaps the guy wasn't working alone and had someone else distract the employee that knew he had the bottle....so he could escape.
Not the best quality photo of the guy, would've thought the LCBO would have higher quality cameras in store...
JerCraigs wrote:If they were charging $26,000 there was more than one robbery going on here
I did some work for Glenfiddich a couple of years ago. They bring in a couple of every year and they always sell. There's always some rich dudes around who want this kind of thing!
El Pinguino wrote:The article says he "selected" the bottle...which to me means there was an employee there helping him choose / unlocking the glass for him.
Often times police use the term "selected" when describing theives choosing what to steal...I don't think it implies staff helped him. My guess, he opened the case himself.
I thought all the really expensive bottles were behind the desk at customer service though.
JerCraigs wrote:If they were charging $26,000 there was more than one robbery going on here
I did some work for Glenfiddich a couple of years ago. They bring in a couple of every year and they always sell. There's always some rich dudes around who want this kind of thing!
I get that it's a "what the market will bear" kind of situation. It's still crazy.
