The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of $12,000 worth of hand tools and construction equipment from a storage trailer west of Salina earlier this week.
Saline County Sheriff's Captain Jim Hughes said this morning that sometime between 2 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, someone cut the locks off of a construction storage trailer belonging to Stevenson Construction, of Falun, that was parked in the 800 block of North Fairchilds Road. The construction company was doing some work at the site where a house had burned, Hughes said. Sheriff Roger Soldan later confirmed that the house was the one owned by Daniel D'Albini that was destroyed by fire on Jan. 28, 2018.
Hughes said $12,000 in hand tools and construction equipment, including numerous power tools were stolen. Additionally, damage to the trailer latch was estimated at $200, Hughes said.