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Stolen pickup found

Trailer, tools taken in burglary

BUTLER TWP — A pickup truck stolen in a weekend burglary at an excavating business turned up Monday night in Allegheny County, police said.

But whoever took the 2004 Ford truck worth about $30,000 was long gone, authorities said.

Still missing from the break-in at Shockey Excavating on Shockey Lane is a cargo trailer and numerous tools that the burglars stuffed into it and the truck before driving away.

The heist, in all, netted about $60,000 in property, said Butler Township Detective Sgt. Nathan Teslik.

Investigators have no suspects. Teslik also acknowledged that he doesn’t know if one or more burglars committed the crime between noon Saturday and early Monday morning.

He said he hoped that once investigators comb through the pickup, possibly later today, police would have some leads to pursue.

Teslik said he was notified about 8 p.m. Monday that the truck had been found abandoned in Tarentum; however, he did not immediately know its condition or if any stolen tools were inside.

The pickup was parked in a garage at Shockey Excavating when someone over the weekend smashed the glass on a door to get inside, said township Police Lt. John Hays

The burglar drove the truck into the yard at the business complex and hitched up a silver, 2011 Lark cargo trailer, which at the time displayed the Pennsylvania license plate XGN-5490.

The truck and trailer were backed up into the garage and the suspect or suspects loaded tools into both vehicles, Teslik said

The trailer, he noted, had a pull-down ramp that aided in the theft of the tools.

Meanwhile, about 10 a.m. Monday the owner of another cargo trailer that was parked at the same business reported that the license plate was missing from his trailer.

The burglar, police said, may have placed that missing Pennsylvania plate XGY-235 on the stolen trailer.

Anyone with information about the crime or the whereabouts about the stolen vehicles is asked to call police at 724-285-9600, or 911.

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