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LA officials are calling on the city council to establish a copper wire theft task force to combat the crime that is costing taxpayers millions.

Two Los Angeles City Council members are calling for the creation of a police task force to crackdown on copper wire thefts.

Cemeteries, streetlights and bridges across Los Angeles have been targeted by copper thieves in recent weeks, and now officials are vowing to crack down on the rise in thefts. Thieves are stealing copper wire so they can sell it to recycling centers who may not know that what they are buying is stolen. According to […]

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is working with Pasadena to crack down on copper thieves who’ve targeted city property. According to Pasadena Now, there’s been a “surge in copper theft … since November” totaling at least 34 incidents targeting street lights and city stock yards. Local outlet ColoradoBoulevard.net reports that “the losses have […]

Police received information that copper reported stolen from a construction site was being loaded into a taxi and headed to a scrap yard.

Pine Bluff police arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of stealing copper wires from around the city for months.

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two suspects have been arrested after one of them allegedly stole over $100,000 in copper wire from a solar panel farm and provoking damages of millions of dollars to it, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday. In mid-December, deputies say someone stole more than $100,000 in copper wire from […]

A man was arrested in West Valley City Wednesday for serial copper wire theft, according to West Valley City Police.

A couple of Southie churches were broken into within a few hours overnight, according to Boston Police who arrested three suspects with the help of K-9 Duke.