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from today's milwaukee journal sentinal:
FRIDAY, Feb. 24, 2006, 6:10 p.m.
By Don Behm
Thieves take $26,380 worth of beer
Thousands of cans and bottles of Miller Genuine Draft and Miller Light, valued at $26,380, were removed from a semi-trailer found abandoned at an Oak Creek truck stop earlier this week, authorities said today.
In a daring nighttime caper that started Friday evening in Richfield, someone backed a truck up to a beer-filled semi-trailer from the Millis Transfer Inc. yard, 3001 Highway 167, Washington County Sheriff Brian Rahn said.
Not a single bottle or can remained in the semi-trailer when it was found Monday at the Pilot Travel Center truck stop at 2031 W. Ryan Road, Rahn said. Thieves left only a few pieces of shrink wrap and several wooden pallets behind.
"Either they were some awful big drinkers or it was a large-scale operation and it was done with the intent to resell the beer on the black market," Rahn said. There are no suspects, but investigators are reviewing video surveillance tapes from both locations, he said.
The semi-trailer inventory included: 384 24-packs of Miller Genuine Draft in 12-ounce glass bottles valued at $5,760; 560 18-packs of Miller Genuine Draft in 12-ounce glass bottles valued at $7,280; 980 18-packs of Miller Genuine Draft in 12-ounce aluminum cans valued at $12,740, and 40 24-packs of Miller Lite 16-ounce plastic bottles valued at $600.
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