Honolulu police and CrimeStoppers are seeking the public’s help locating a man suspected of stealing a shipping container full of photovoltaic solar panels.

Police said that a man in a white, semi-truck with black lettering entered a locked gate entrance of Environmental Chemical Corp. on Aliamanu Road in the Salt Lake area at about 5 a.m. on April 11.

The man told a security guard that he was there to pick up an empty shipping container, police said. The suspect then hooked up the container’s trailer to his truck and drove off, police said.

The container is described as a blue, Horizon Lines shipping container with the serial number GESU-484819. The semi-truck trailer was a red Hyundai with the license plate 483OTR. The panels are described as Sharp 240 watt photovoltaic solar panels, model ND-240QCJ.

The suspect is described as in his 30s, weighing 180 pounds and wearing a white T-shirt, long denim pants, a beanie and boots.

Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone. Free cell phone calls are provide by AT&T, Nextel Hawaii, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Hawaii, Mobi PCS and Hawaiian Tel.

The case is being investigated as a first-degree theft.