Police say the trio are suspects in more than 200 robberies that involved the culprits using high-tech surveillance and a low-tech tool: a cardboard box.
Since November 2006, fast-food restaurants from Toronto to Waterloo were targeted, with the thieves sneaking inside, bypassing alarm systems and making off with lots of cash, police said.
Police say the thieves would would simply prop the three-sided cardboard box against the front door of the business they were targeting. Anyone walking by would never have known anything was amiss. Little did they know there was a thief inside the box, cutting his way through the glass in the front door.
Once inside, they would disable the alarm systems and then use a grinder to crack the safes. In many cases, police said the men wore two-way radio headsets to communicate while one man broke in and the other acted as a look-out.
Police have charged Gordon Michael Edwards, 27, Jason Richard Phillips, 25, and Donna Hofscheier, 23, all of Toronto, in connection with the break-ins.
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