Pamplin Media Group
A trailer with two telescopes inside, including a 14-foot-long custom telescope, was reported stolen.
Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a trailer containing two valuable telescopes that was reported stolen from the Laurelwood area this week.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said a rural property owner reported a 1997 Wells Cargo enclosed trailer he had been storing went missing overnight. He discovered it was gone on Thursday, March 11.
Among the items in the trailer was a 14-foot-long telescope valued at $15,000, the sheriff's office said. The telescope was custom-built, and the owner had reportedly been working on it for decades.