Trucker Drives Off With Missile Launchers

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A TRUCK driver suffering from marital problems drove off with a cargo of military personnel carriers armed with missile launchers before Canadian police stopped him near Toronto, officials said.

The military vehicles were supposed to be transported from Canadian Forces Base Meaford, north of Toronto, to Montreal this week where they would be placed in storage, said Major Daryl Morrell.
Instead, the driver, employed by a civilian trucking firm, was headed in the opposite direction on a busy highway when he was pulled over by a half dozen police cruisers and arrested.

"He'd been having serious personal issues. He'd had marital problems," said David Maclean, general manager of the trucking company Cam Lane Group, who alerted police after losing contact with the driver.

"This was an isolated and somewhat bizarre incident. The fact that it was on a busy highway caught everybody's attention, but there was nothing sinister going on and nobody was ever in any danger," he said.

Police impounded the flatbed semi-trailer truck and its cargo, but did not charge the driver, according to Maclean.

The missile launchers can destroy ground targets over long distances, but there was no ammunition on the truck, Morrell said.
As for the security breach, he said: "We see this as an isolated incident, but we will be discussing it with the contractor."

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