Police view evidence in stolen-trailers case

STAFF REPORT

LEAVITTSBURG — Warren Township police say they have one or two persons of interest in the theft of two truck trailers, one containing $47,000 worth of aluminum.

Lt. Donald Bishop said Tuesday that it’s a matter of putting the evidence together before seeking charges.

Meanwhile, the Ohio State Highway Patrol has been notified to look for the two aluminum trailers each valued at $10,000 to $12,000. The aluminum load weighed 18,000 pounds.

The trailers were reported missing Monday morning from the Short Stop Truck Stop on state Route 5. One is owned by a Newton Falls owner/operator and the other by a Brooklyn, Ohio, company that was driven by a local man, Bishop said.

The lieutenant said he’s not sure how many trucks were used to hook onto the large trailers to haul them away.

“I’m assuming they had more than one,” Bishop said, noting he believes that the aluminum trucks and the load were chopped up, melted and sold.

It also wouldn’t be difficult to hide the trailers by putting them in another truck stop so they blended with the other parked rigs, he explained

“There’s a lot of traffic. You don’t know whose going in and out,” Bishop commented, adding that 50 to 60 rigs are parked at Short Stop at any given time.