While liquor theft is largely thought of as petty crime, the scale of the increasingly larger heists involving teams of thieves points more to organized crime, they say. The close proximity of police on Wilson Ave. on the evening of Jan. 16 was not mere happenstance, according to Det. Matthew Routh of 32 Division, but part of a more deliberate plan to act against LCBO theft. And as the various Toronto police divisions dive deeper into the LCBO theft epidemic, they say the evidence is mounting. Other sources, meanwhile, have provided the Star with a sense of the vast range of characters in the orbit of LCBO theft.

Source: thestar February 08, 2019 21:00 UTC