PITTSBURGH FBI gets involved after 3 tractor-trailers of clothes worth millions are stolen

The stolen clothes have a retail value of about $2.4 million.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Thieves made off with three tractor-trailers filled with designer wind breakers and woven shirts with a wholesale value of $1.2 million, an FBI agent said.
The FBI is searching for the load of Chaps by Ralph Lauren-label clothing, the tractor-trailers and those involved in the heist. At least three people would have to be involved in the crime because three rigs were driven away from the trucking terminal in Wall, about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh, Tim Skoog of the FBI's Pittsburgh Interstate Theft Task Force said Wednesday.
Likely still around
Although the clothing heist probably happened between 10:30 p.m. and midnight Friday, the merchandise and the thieves likely were still in the Pittsburgh area this week, Skoog said.
Skoog and John Tomoney, director of corporate security for Warnaco Inc., the clothing's manufacturer, have pieced together a timeline of what probably happened before the theft.
The merchandise, which was manufactured in Cambodia, was shipped in locked containers that are usually not opened until they reach their final destination. The containers were shipped to Newark, N.J., and then shipped via tractor-trailer to the GPS Maersk Trucking Terminal in Allegheny County.
Trucks were to pick up the clothing containers Saturday. On Friday night, thieves cut a lock on a gate protecting truck tractors and then another lock protecting the shipping containers, Skoog said. The group was apparently looking for high-end merchandise, ignoring a container of McDonald's Happy Meals toys but zeroing in on the designer clothing, officials said.
"Even for New York City it would be a big theft," Tomoney said. "The only one of similar size that I've dealt with was in Mexico."
The clothing has a wholesale value of $1.2 million and a retail value of up to $2.4 million, Tomoney said. The trucks were worth about $225,000.