The Ellis County Press: Truck full of cigarettes stolen, recovered

Truck full of cigarettes stolen, recovered
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Editor on 11/01/2007 00:00:00


_STAFF REPORT_
WAXAHACHIE - A tractor-trailer full of cigarettes was stolen from a Waxahachie
terminal early Monday, Oct. 22 and recovered about two hours later, a company
spokesman said.
The truck belonging to Celadon Trucking Services was stolen from the 7200 block
of Interstate 35E about 2 a.m., said Craig Koven, spokesman for the
Indianapolis-based company.
He said two people hotwired a truck and threatened a security guard with a gun
before fleeing.
The trailer, tractor and cigarettes were worth about $2 million, Waxahachie
police said.
'Officials were able to track the truck because it was equipped with a
monitoring device,' Koven said.
It was recovered by authorities about 3:45 a.m. about 30 miles from the
Waxahachie terminal with the cigarettes.
No arrests had been made, police said, but they believe as many as four people
may have been involved.