TEMPLE, Ga. -- Authorities are investigating the reported theft of a tractor-trailer carrying approximately $8.8 million in pharmaceutical drugs from a truck stop in Temple.

 

Temple Police Chief Ed Whitt said the stolen 2007 Peterbilt 18-wheel tractor-trailer was valued at $100,000. He said the medication it was hauling included blood thinners and cold and nasal medicine. The theft happened Friday night at the Pilot truck stop off the Interstate 20 exit.

 

It was the second theft of a tractor-trailer there in recent months. Whitt said in May another driver stopped for a shower and returned to find his rig gone. He was not hauling any cargo.