A one-time employee of the Canadian Mint has been found guilty of smuggling $165,000 worth of gold from the building on Sussex Drive apparently in his rectum. A judge concluded the RCMP theory about how Leston Lawrence got the gold out of the mint was correct. As a seven-year employee he was largely unsuspicious to guards when he set off metal detectors 28 times in 2014-15. Hand detectors employed by the guards did not detect the gold inside the man’s body. He was brought to police attention by the Royal Bank when a teller noticed that cheques to Lawrence worth more than $15,000 from an Ottawa gold buyer were being deposited by an employee of the mint.
