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Other items also taken as security system was disabled at Manchester.

HANOVER TWP. – Township police said two forklifts and other items valued at $100,000 were stolen from Manchester Industries after the building’s security system was disabled.
Plant Manager Jerry Gazinski said his office was ransacked and a locked filing cabinet was forced open. He said two forklifts, an electric pallet jack, a manual pallet jack, several boxes of nails and a staple gun were missing.
Gazinski said the security system lost communication to the building at 2:39 a.m. Wednesday.
“The security system was taken out at the phone line connection,” Gazinski said. “They got in the building and because the security lines were breached, they didn’t trip anything.”
Police said the burglary happened sometime between 10:45 Tuesday night and 6:30 Wednesday morning.
Gazinski said his office door was forced open, and a filing cabinet containing employee files was rummaged through.
Police described the stolen forklifts as a green 1993 Mitsubishi and an orange and gray 2005 Toyota.
Gazinski suspected someone driving a straight truck fled with the forklifts.
A fence surrounds the property, Gazinski said, but is usually left open for overnight deliveries.
“We have so much traffic coming in after hours, we didn’t have the fence shut; It’s shut now,” Gazinski said.
Manchester Industries, which converts paper into specific sizes, is located on Stewart Road, a side roadway off New Commerce Boulevard, the main artery through the industrial estates.
Gazinski said the company, due to the shuttering economy, stopped operating its third shift and downsized from approximately 40 to 24 employees in late 2008.
Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to contact Hanover Township police at 825-1254.