Brink's-Mat robbery bullion bars bearing the refiner's mark and serial numbers of bars stolen in the Brink's-Mat robbery. According to the police spokesman, the bars were gold-coated tungsten counterfeits, and therefore could not be Johnson Matthey's stolen gold bars. He said that the arrested men planned to fraudulently claim they were from the Heathrow robbery. No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way. A person named Gordon Parry laundered large amounts of cash from the robbery after the disposal of the gold according to
Boca Raton Airport was turned over to the City of Boca Raton and to the State of Florida. and a single runway (of three original runways), completely rebuilt, became the Boca Raton Airport. The remaining land became the campus of Florida Atlantic University. The airport's first control tower opened in 2000. The airport suffered more than $12 million worth of damage to hangars when Hurricane Wilma passed through the area in October 2005. In 1997, the restored original Aston Martin DB5 'Effects Car' from the James Bond film "Goldfinger" was stolen from a hanger at Boca Raton airport. A U.S. Customs and Border