OMG PD: Man Risks Life Stealing Copper Wires
Patch.com
A 45-year-old Cranston man risked his own life while stealing copper wires from utility poles to sell the copper as scrap. He was caught in the act of cutting ground wires from utility poles on several city streets, and he was charged with felony ...

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Bid to change law to block scrap metal thefts
Oxford Mail
THE president of an Oxfordshire rail campaign group is aiming to curb the surge in scrap metal thefts by getting the law changed. Lord Faulkner, who heads the Cotswold Line Promotion Group, wants to make cash transactions for ...

Metal theft surges as economy limps along: Metal grates and a funeral sign are ...
Destin Log
According to the police report, Raebel admitted to stealing units and selling them for scrap metal in Fort Walton Beach. The prices of metal can vary depending on what you are dealing with, but for example, copper can earn you between 35 cents and ...

Stroud and Dursley drivers quizzed over scrap metal
BBC News
Vehicles suspected of carrying scrap metal have been stopped at a number of police roadblocks in Gloucestershire. Officers searched vans and lorries near Sharpness Docks, on the A38 at Moreton Valance, and the A46 at Woodchester. ...

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Reclaimer shares reward with earth
The Coloradoan
A: My uncle, Kent Garvin, offered me the job right out of college. Q: What are the biggest challenges you or your industry face? A: Scrap theft. When the price of copper reaches high prices like it has now, we hear of a lot of thefts. ...

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In defense of scrap metal dealers
Baltimore Sun
The Sun report on the thefts of copper downspouts and gutters in the region suggested one cause of such crimes was "unscrupulous scrap dealers" who buy the materials ("Stolen copper gutters latest trend in gutter thefts," Dec. ...

MetalMiner
Copper Thieves Movin' On Up From Scrap, Graduating to Live Wires
MetalMiner
by tberezowsky on December 9, 2011 Metal thieves are getting more and more ballsy with their sticky fingers. Turns out that stealing scrap copper is now apparently child's play to some, and those commodity-grabbing crooks are now going for metal that's ...
Copper Thieves Rip Metal From Train Tracks, Traffic LightsABC News
BART arrests San Francisco man in copper-wire theft caseSan Jose Mercury News

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Scrap metal thefts reported in Cowley County
Winfield Daily Courier Online
A number of thefts reported in Cowley County over the past week involving items that can be sold for scrap metal have law enforcement officials urging residents to take precautions. •On Dec. 1, the theft of two electric motors stolen ...

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Daily Press
Newport News Waterworks received nearly $40000 from the sale of scrap metal
Daily Press
NEWPORT NEWS — Newport News Waterworks collected $36195 by selling scrap metal from its work sites over the past two fiscal years, according to records released to the Daily Press after the newspaper ...

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Valley Independent Sentinel
War memorial plaques stolen for scrap metal
Ct Post
Cota estimates the two copper and brass war memorial plaques recently stolen from an area on Woodbridge Avenue and Viselli Court in his city were valued at about $8000 each. However, the going rate is only $3.10 a pound for scrap copper and just $2 a ...
More Memorial Plaques StolenNBC Connecticut
Historic Plaque Stolen In SheltonValley Independent Sentinel

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