After months on their sticky trail, Canadian police have finally fingered the people allegedly involved in the great Canadian maple syrup caper .
While police interviewed 300 people, they didn't let that sap their strength 鈥� and on Tuesday, three men were expected in court to answer charges related to the theft of the estimated $22 million in maple syrup. There are warrants out for another five people, .
The investigation 鈥� which involved Quebec provincial police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 鈥� isn't over yet. But , authorities were able to get back two-thirds of the 2.7 million kilos of stolen syrup siphoned from a Quebec warehouse between August 2011 and July 2012.
CTV reports that "the stolen amount would have provided a one-tablespoon topping for a whopping 183 million flapjacks."
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