Fuel Truck Stolen From Penn. Located In D.C.
January 16, 2008
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For the second time in less than a week a fuel truck has been stolen in Pennsylvania. This time it made officials a little nervous as they tracked it, using thew truck heading towards Washington D.C.
Washington officials were worried about terrorism on Tuesday night when someone stole a tanker truck and drove it toward D.C.
The truck was stolen from Pennsylvania and ended up in Northeast Washington. However, police said it appeared that the crook wasn’t interested in terrorism.
The fuel truck that was the subject of a nationwide terrorism alert was found on a residential street in Northeast Washington a few miles from the White House on Tuesday night.
The truck was reported stolen early Tuesday morning at a commercial fueling station in Lancaster, Penn.
The lettering on the door reads “Heating Oil Partners, East Hartford, Conn.,” the name of the company that owns the truck.
Investigators called for officers from the bomb squad to make sure that the vehicle was not rigged with any explosives or booby traps.
They said they think whoever stole the truck did so not for terrorism, but for profit.
“We don’t see any nexus to terrorism,” said D.C. police Sgt. James Manning. “We believe it was probably stolen for financial gain of some sort.”
By the time the truck was tracked down via a GPS system, some 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel had been pumped out and presumably stolen.
Heating Oil Partners sent a mechanic and a driver to recover the truck.
“It wasn’t here today, this morning when I left,” said Vince Tompkins, who lives nearby. “On my return it was there. (I left at) 6:30 a.m. this morning.”
D.C. police said they have learned this was the second fuel truck stolen in a few days from the same area of Pennsylvania.
“We’ve heard that there’s been other thefts of Heating Oil trucks in Lancaster,” Manning said. “We’re working with the Lancaster Police Department. I don’t believe any of those other trucks have been found around this area, though.”
Police said there has been an increase in thefts like this as fuel prices continue to rise.
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Have lived in Lancaster County all my life. Unfortunately, many here see national security issues like this as “not in our back yard.”
Any who want us to pay attention & take precautions, are labeled alarmists.
Unfortunately, one day such attitudes will mean innocent deaths.
Just as we have failed to properly secure cargo coming in on ships, have implemented airport security that can & has been easily compromised, and have taken the liberal nice guy approach to securing the borders with intentions rather than fencing & adequate numbers of Border Patrol Agents, this nation & its “it won’t happen to us” attitudes, will mean more of those innocent deaths!