(KAIR)--The theft of a trailer, later found on its side, off an Atchison County roadway, is under the investigation of Atchison Police.

According to a release from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, the 1986 Starlite enclosed trailer was stolen from the 1200 block of South 4th Street, sometime between Sunday evening at 5:30 and 6:30 Monday morning.

On Monday morning, around 7:00, Wilson says the trailer, and its contents, were recovered near 6th and Sherman Road.

According to Wilson, the trailer, when discovered, was off the roadway and on its side, “appearing that the trailer had come loose from the vehicle pulling it” as that vehicle “was traveling eastbound on Sherman Road,” east of 6th Street.

Anyone with information regarding the trailer theft should contact Atchison Police at 913-367-4323.