Mahoning Township police are investigating an incident at New England Motor Freight along Mahoning Drive East that occurred early Wednesday morning.

Late Tuesday night police were notified of a suspicious person at the fence of the facility. When police arrived on scene the person was not to be found.Early Wednesday morning about 4:30 a.m. a large cut was found in the chain link fence surrounding the sprawling facility. A possible sighting of the suspicious person was made by company employees.Police were again called to the scene but Mahoning Township police had no one on duty. State police were summoned to the scene by the Carbon Communications Center but state police refused to respond stating it was not an emergency.Mahoning police, assisted by Lehighton police and a State Police Forensic team, examined the scene and took evidence.The culprits cut through the fence, then cut locks off the rear of the trailers lined up against the fence to the rear of the facility.Police have found numerous items in the dense wooded area and wetlands between the plant and Ashtown road.Mahoning Township chief of police Audie Mertz reports two men are now in custody with possibly a third. A fourth person is in question.Police believe the men worked all night in removing the number of items from the plant property. The items were carried through the dense woods and then wearing waders carried it through the Mahoning creek.They then had to drag the items up the bank again through more woods and a field to an area behind George's bus garage on Ashtown Road. There they stacked a large number of stolen tires, possibly over 30 in number.