US thieves steal $200,000 worth of tyres
Recent thefts of tyres from parked trucks in the UK have been outdone in terms of scale and audacity by a crime that took place in the US state of Florida last week. Tire Review reports that a group of thieves stole two semi-trailers full of passenger, performance and light truck/SUV tyres from behind a tyre dealership in Fort Lauderdale in the early hours of July 27. Unlike their British counterparts, who loaded tyres into their own vehicle or vehicles before making a getaway, the US criminals saved considerable time and effort by bringing their own Freightliner tractor unit to remove the trailers from the store’s loading dock.
According to the dealership’s manager, Bob Walton, the trailers were welded and pinned directly to the loading dock. Surveillance cameras caught the thieves as they yanked one of the trailers from the dock, drove it away to an unknown location, then returned about two hours later for a second and then a couple of hours later for a third trailer. Apparently they couldn’t detach the third trailer from the loading dock.
Walton said each trailer was packed with tyres and valued the haul at US$100,000 per trailer. The tyres had been removed from the warehouse and stored in the trailers to facilitate a fire inspection, he added. The dealership has posted a $20,000 reward for the arrest of the thieves.
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