Excavator stolen from construction site near ilani

Clark County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a bright orange excavator stolen early Friday morning from a construction site near ilani.

The Kubota U55-4R3AP excavator went missing from the future site of C Store, which is being built near the casino west of La Center at Exit 16 off Interstate 5.

The suspect, or suspects, entered the construction site and left with the large machine on a flatbed trailer attached to a full-sized truck, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

Anyone with information about the theft should email detectives Jon Pound at jpound@cowlitz.org or Joe Higgs at jhiggs@cowlitz.org.

The sheriff’s office provided a picture of a Kubota excavator similar to the one stolen last week. The machine is orange with a gray cab, deputies said.

Both the sheriff’s office and the Cowlitz Public Safety Department are investigating the theft.