NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is currently investigating at Uptown Recycling after $300,000 of materials were stolen from the Five O Fore golf entertainment complex construction site in the 3800 block of Howard Avenue.
Police believe some of the material at the Recycling Center at 1320 S. Claiborne Avenue appears to have been stolen from the construction site.
Earlier Tuesday NOPD said they were looking for two men for allegedly stealing the materials.
The two suspects were seen entering the construction site in a semi-truck pulling a flatbed trailer and a white Dodge Ram pickup truck. After entering the site, the suspects used heavy machinery to put large steel beams onto the flatbed trailer before fleeing the scene.
This is another setback to the development project that has faced numerous delays in the past. The stolen material is not insured. Alex Xiao, who is the managing partner of the Five O Fore consortium, said they are offering a $5,000 reward for any tips leading to an arrest.
“That stuff was being tested, and now we have to literally remanufacture all of those," Xiao told our partners at NOLA.com. "It will cause some delays and we don’t know what that delay will be until further evaluation.”
Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to call NOPD Sixth District detectives at 504-658-6060. If you wish to report information anonymously can do so by calling Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.
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