Wichita police say thieves have stripped $100,000 worth of copper wire and piping from a former grocery store. Police said Wednesday the theft was discovered Tuesday at a now-closed Dillons store in the southern part of the city. Capt. Doug …
Kansas utility company officials say someone who caused a power outage and more than $150,000 in wire loss and damage by breaking into a substation could possibly be blind, deaf and seriously burned. KWCH-TV reports Westar crews who went to …
Richland County sheriff’s deputies say copper thieves have hit nine churches in the southeastern part of the South Carolina county since the beginning of the year. Officials estimate it will cost more than $100,000 to replace the damaged air conditioning …
Police in eastern Kentucky say copper thieves have been cutting power lines and creating an electrocution risk for themselves and anyone walking near the poles. Letcher County Sheriff Danny Webb told The Mountain Eagle that thieves have taken neutral conductor …
Authorities say traffic cameras on a main freeway through metro Atlanta, Ga., were malfunctioning Friday, apparently the result of repeated thefts of copper and fiber-optic wiring. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the wiring connects the cameras on Georgia 400 to …
For the third time this year, thieves have stolen more copper downspouts from an Omaha, Neb., church. Officials with First Christian Church say thieves made off with $2,100 worth of downspouts about two weeks ago. Seven 10 foot-sections were taken. …
Despite new laws making any theft of copper a state jail felony, thieves continue to plague Texas businesses by ripping away copper tubing from commercial air conditioning units. Several Texas businesses have been hit more than once and the result …
Police in suburban St. Louis, Mo., believe it took weeks for copper thieves to vandalize all 23 air conditioners on a school roof. The 23 units atop Jennings Junior High School were stripped of their copper coils, causing an estimated …
More than 50 spans of electric lines have been stolen in Craighead and Lawrence counties in the last few months, and the local utility wants it to stop. Craighead Electric CEO Brian Duncan told the Paragould Daily Press for a …