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Stolen truck trailer was filled with coffee creamer

BY BECKY MALKOVICH, The Southern

Monday, October 13, 2008 11:18 PM CDT

WEST CITY - West City police may have an important clue to the identity of the person who drove off with a 53-foot trailer over the weekend: The person apparently takes cream in his or her coffee.

A whole lot of cream, since the hijacked trailer was loaded with Coffee-mate creamer, a West City Police Department spokeswoman said.

The trailer was attached to a cab that was parked for several days in a parking lot at one of the village's shopping centers, police report. When the semitrailer's driver returned to the lot Sunday night, the cab's window was broken and the trailer was missing.

The value of the trailer's contents was unavailable and police offered no theories as to why that particular truck trailer was targeted in the lot full of trucks, or what thieves could do with their haul.

An Internet search revealed dozens of Web sites extolling the virtues of coffee creamer as an explosive and included several videos displaying its volatility.

The 1999 white cargo trailer belonged to Parrish Trucking of Freeburg and had the number 3062 printed on the rear door.

Anyone with information is asked to call West City police at 435-6112 or the trucking company at (800) 486-3885.

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