Crime & Safety
Almost a Mile Worth of Copper Wire Stolen, Police Say
5,000 feet of wire is stolen from a construction site in the 8800 block of Ridge Avenue.
A man told police that every time workers leave a construction site in the 8800 block of Ridge Avenue things go missing--this time it was 5,000 feet of copper wire.
The man is building homes in the area, and he told police that sometime between 12 p.m. on Oct. 23 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 some one took a spool of #10 copper wiring from the job site.
Police said that the wire was worth an estimated $2,000.
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