{"id":15900,"date":"2010-02-01T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2010-02-01T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:54:43","slug":"truck-heists-wreaking-havoc-on-u-s-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/truck-heists-wreaking-havoc-on-u-s-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Heists Wreaking Havoc on U.S. Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thieves are swiping semis and tractor-trailers filled with goods, triggering a spike in cargo theft on the nation’s highways.<\/p>\n

Over five days last month, an 18-wheeler carrying 710 cartons of consumer electronics was stolen from a Pennsylvania rest stop, a 53-foot-long rig packed with 43,000 pounds of paper was ripped off in Ottawa, Ill., and a 40-foot-long truck filled with reclining armchairs went missing in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Truckloads containing $487 million of goods were stolen in the U.S. in 2009, a 67 percent increase over the $290 million worth of products swiped a year earlier. Thieves stole 859 truckloads in 2009, up from 767 loads in 2008 and 672 in 2007, according to FreightWatch International, an Austin, Texas-based supply-chain security firm that maintains a database of thefts that several government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, look to for trends.<\/p>\n

“In the past two months, we&apos;ve just seen such an increase that it’s to the point where criminals are just wreaking havoc,” said Sandor Lengyel, a detective sergeant and squad leader in New Jersey State Police’s cargo-theft unit. “They’ll pretty much steal anything.” Cargo thieves ripped off $28 million in goods in New Jersey in 2009, an 87 percent spike from the $15 million stolen in 2008, he said.<\/p>\n

via Truck Heists ‘Wreaking Havoc’ on U.S. Highways, Endangering Consumers – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News – FOXNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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