INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana police detectives are looking for the man who provided free alcohol for a six-week-long block party on the west side of Indianapolis -- by stealing beer.

Sheriff's officers recovered the leftovers of a stolen semi-trailer full of Miller Lite Beer.

Investigators say a disgruntled, just-fired employee parked the 53-foot trailer and invited the neighborhood to help themselves.

Thirsty residents drank up nearly 1,500 cases of beer valued at almost $30,000.

"I'm really surprised there's any beer left," Marion County sheriff's Detective Christa Moncrief said. "I figured it would have been gone within the first week, but maybe not a lot of people knew it was here."

An area liquor store tipped authorities to the trailer after someone tried to sell the store a pallet of beer.