Posted on 08/10/2006 3:11:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Drugs Worth Millions Stolen From Area Company
UPDATED: 12:07 am EDT August 10, 2006
WAKE COUNTY, N.C. -- Federal, state and local authorities are investigating an interstate drug heist, after millions of dollars in medications never made it to their intended destination.
Authorities said that the alleged heist occurred at Longistics Corporation in Wake County near Research Triangle Park late Saturday. According to police, at least three suspects targeted the company, which handles shipments for the health care industry, and stole two tractor-trailers full of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
"The FBI estimates that the total value of the prescription and non-prescription drugs that were on those two trailers is about $22 million," said Jim Sughrue of the Raleigh Police Department.
Sughrue said that the suspects then headed to a truck stop on Jones Sausage Road off Interstate 40 East, where they left one of the cabs, hooked up the trailer to another cab and made their getaway. Authorities recovered the abandoned truck on Tuesday.
The truck stop is a popular stopping point for many truckers on I-40 and nearby I-95. Authorities said that the alleged stolen goods could have been transported anywhere in the United States.
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Since the alleged heist could involve the transport of stolen goods across state lines, several state, local and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating the incident. For that reason, many details related to the investigation aren't being released, including information about possible suspects.
The trailer tags on the missing trailers are Tennessee-issued T-290478 and Z-83247. The license tag on the missing truck is North Carolina-issued LM-1752. If you have any information relating to this case, contact your local law enforcement office.
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inside job
Gonna be a lot more meth on the streets for Back to School season.
You would think that the trailers would be equipped with tracking beacons of some sort.
"Sughrue said that the suspects then headed to a truck stop on Jones
Sausage Road off Interstate 40 East, where they left one of the cabs,
hooked up the trailer to another cab and made their getaway"
Wonder if someone at the FBI is finding that those nice young men from
the Middle East have now decided to put their fraudulent trucking licenses
to use:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573558/posts
Seeing how that one Islamic group that made terrorist funds off
cigarettes is now busted, maybe these guys are the new fund-raisers
for Hezbollah.
Cold and flu season is right around the corner. Stock up!
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