Two men have been charged with stealing a semi-trailer Saturday, which was loaded with $60,000 worth of laundry detergent in southwest suburban Orland Park.
Omar Daraghma, 30, and Theair Kartoum, 25, were each charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, according to a release from Orland Park police.
A trucking company in southwest suburban Bolingbrook called police about 10 a.m. on Saturday saying one of their semi-trailers was stolen and taken to the Oak Forest area, the release said.
The trailer’s owner cited a surveillance video that showed it being pulled by a white semi-tractor and leaving the lot at 12:48 a.m. that same day, police said.
Oak Forest police found the trailer in the 15500 block of 70th Court in Orland Park, where it was backed up to a loading dock, the release said, and Orland Park police were called to the scene.
Officers found two men in the trailer, which had $60,000 worth of laundry detergent inside, police said. The men said they were being paid $100 each to unload the trailer but wouldn’t say who hired them, police said.
A Darien resident who owns the attached white semi-tractor had parked it in a lot on Frontage Road in Bolingbrook, police said.
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Daraghma, of the 8000 block of Thomas Street in southwest suburban Justice, and Kartou, of the 7900 block of Nagle Avenue in southwest suburban Burbank, were given a choice to be held on a $50,000 recognizance bond with electronic monitoring or in jail, with a $20,000 bond, the release said.
They will next appear in court on Feb. 18.
