More Copper Theft Stories
Yakima, Washington: State strikes back at copper thieves (Faced with copper wire thefts that disable warning signs, weather monitoring stations and traffic cameras through Snoqualmie Pass, state road crews are welding shut electrical junction boxes along I-90).
Fort Smith, Arkansas: Man Found Electrocuted In Warehouse (A man was electrocuted in Fort Smith while possibly attempting to steal copper from a former furniture factory. “I’m not sure this gentleman had a legal reason to be there, but copper theft is a definite possibility,” an investigator said.).
Macon, Georgia: Copper theft knocks radio station off the air (A central Georgia radio station was knocked off the air after someone stole copper from the station's transmitter. "They basically stripped the entire site,'' said James Gay, engineer for rock station Q106. "Pretty much everything that keeps us on the air is removed.'' The thief or thieves stripped copper from the air conditioner, generator, transfer switch and took all the electronics, Gay said. Equipment also was damaged, he said. The station was reported off the air about 9 a.m. Monday, and wasn't back on until 4:30 p.m. It was the third time in two months the station has been hit by a copper theft, Gay said.
Chicago, Illinois: Rising scrap prices fire up thieves (Copper pipe, catalytic converters high on list). When an electrical crew arrived at a construction site on a recent Monday morning, the workers made an unwelcome discovery: Thieves had plundered the unfinished building during the weekend, using ladders and electric saws to expertly cut copper piping out of the structure's ceiling. "It was already in place," site manager Jim Senderak said of the stolen copper piping. "They took cordless saws, cut everything out and left," Senderak said. Material thieves don't stop at construction sites, either. In September, two men swiped at least 60 copper or bronze vases from a cemetery in Oakbrook Terrace, and, if the duo had not been caught, the theft could have netted them $8,000. From 2002 to 2006, the price of copper more than quadrupled, from 75 cents per pound to $3.20 per pound, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
California: Unusual Culprits Cripple Farms in California (Copper thieves have been stripping the copper wires out of irrigation systems throughout California. The rampant thefts have left farmers without functioning water pumps for days and weeks at a time, creating financial loss and occasional crop devastation in a region still smarting from a spectacular freeze last winter. Theft of scrap metal, mostly copper, has been fueled largely by record-level prices for copper resulting from a building boom in Asia. Common in developing counties, metal theft is now committed in nearly every state, largely by methamphetamine users who hock the metal to buy drugs, the authorities say.). copper metal theft zebra
Fort Smith, Arkansas: Man Found Electrocuted In Warehouse (A man was electrocuted in Fort Smith while possibly attempting to steal copper from a former furniture factory. “I’m not sure this gentleman had a legal reason to be there, but copper theft is a definite possibility,” an investigator said.).
Macon, Georgia: Copper theft knocks radio station off the air (A central Georgia radio station was knocked off the air after someone stole copper from the station's transmitter. "They basically stripped the entire site,'' said James Gay, engineer for rock station Q106. "Pretty much everything that keeps us on the air is removed.'' The thief or thieves stripped copper from the air conditioner, generator, transfer switch and took all the electronics, Gay said. Equipment also was damaged, he said. The station was reported off the air about 9 a.m. Monday, and wasn't back on until 4:30 p.m. It was the third time in two months the station has been hit by a copper theft, Gay said.
Chicago, Illinois: Rising scrap prices fire up thieves (Copper pipe, catalytic converters high on list). When an electrical crew arrived at a construction site on a recent Monday morning, the workers made an unwelcome discovery: Thieves had plundered the unfinished building during the weekend, using ladders and electric saws to expertly cut copper piping out of the structure's ceiling. "It was already in place," site manager Jim Senderak said of the stolen copper piping. "They took cordless saws, cut everything out and left," Senderak said. Material thieves don't stop at construction sites, either. In September, two men swiped at least 60 copper or bronze vases from a cemetery in Oakbrook Terrace, and, if the duo had not been caught, the theft could have netted them $8,000. From 2002 to 2006, the price of copper more than quadrupled, from 75 cents per pound to $3.20 per pound, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
California: Unusual Culprits Cripple Farms in California (Copper thieves have been stripping the copper wires out of irrigation systems throughout California. The rampant thefts have left farmers without functioning water pumps for days and weeks at a time, creating financial loss and occasional crop devastation in a region still smarting from a spectacular freeze last winter. Theft of scrap metal, mostly copper, has been fueled largely by record-level prices for copper resulting from a building boom in Asia. Common in developing counties, metal theft is now committed in nearly every state, largely by methamphetamine users who hock the metal to buy drugs, the authorities say.). copper metal theft zebra
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