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CLAYTON -
Police have found a transfer truck that was stolen last week. Still missing: its trailer with a cargo of booze.The truck with its trailer, containing hard liquor, was reported stolen from a lot behind Bojangles' restaurant off Shotwell Road.Someone noticed the truck, which had been parked for several days near a business entrance close to the intersection of Interstate 40 and N.C. 210, Clayton police Capt. Jon Gerrell said Thursday in a news release.A Johnston sheriff's deputy ran a check of its identification and realized that it was the stolen vehicle.But the trailer containing the liquor was not attached and is still missing.Gerrell said the alcohol was valued at $150,000 -- not $500,000 as police originally thought.The 2006 Volvo tractor-trailer bore a Cowan Systems company logo.Clayton police ask anyone with information to contact them at 553-1570.
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