Millions missing in cigarette trailer heist
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[March 02, 2006]

Millions missing in cigarette trailer heist

(Times-News (Burlington, NC) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 2--In a quiet heist Saturday night, thieves pulled out of Mebane with four tractor-trailers and a cargo of hot cigarettes worth $6 million.

According to a police report, 4,727 cases of cigarettes were packed into trucks at the L.J. Rogers Trucking Company on Oakwood Street Extension. On Sunday afternoon an L.J. Rogers employee called officers to report the rigs were missing.



The thieves moved security cameras that record activity in the company's lot and drove off with the trucks. The tractor-trailers belong to L.J. Rogers and are worth about $20,000 each.

The trailers contained 56 million Lorillard brand cigarettes like Newports, Mavericks, and Kents.



Mebane Police Chief Terry Caldwell said some of the trucks have GPS tracking systems, and police have been trying to find them using the GPS signals. By Wednesday evening police were still working with slim leads.

Police from Connecticut to Florida were asked to look out for the trucks.

Caldwell said similar cigarette heists have happened all over the East Coast during the past several years.

In September, a truckload of cigarettes was stolen from the TA Truck stop in Burlington while the driver ate lunch.

Burlington Police Maj. Tim Flack said in that incident police used the truck's GPS tracking device and found the cab within the hour. It was parked in Greensboro, but the trailer of cigarettes was gone.

Three days later, the FBI found the trailer in Miami, but the thieves had already unpacked the cigarettes. No arrests have been made in that case.

In 2001, someone stole a truckload of Gold Toe socks worth $1 million from a Mebane hosiery mill.

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