Police find stolen tractor-trailer full of toilet paper

NEW YORK - Deputies with a North Carolina sheriff's department discovered a stolen 18-wheeler with 18,000 pounds of commercial bathroom paper products including toilet paper.

It happened on Wednesday in Guilford County.

Sheriff's deputies had followed the truck to a warehouse a short distance off of Interstate 40 in Whitsett, North Carolina.

Deputies say the 53-foot Hyundai dry-van trailer had been reported stolen and was being used to transport the toilet paper.

Police said they had not made an arrest yet but the investigation was continuing. 

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