An alleged copper wire thief reportedly hid inside a manhole in Los Angeles and refused to come out.
by JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National News DeskAn alleged copper wire thief reportedly hid inside a manhole in Los Angeles and refused to come out for nearly four hours.Citing the Los Angeles Police Department, the media outlet said authorities responded to a call about a copper wire theft at an underground vault around 2 a.
m. While one person surrendered and was detained at the scene, a second person person "stood down in the vault and refused to come out several hours later,"California Attorney General Rob Bonta previously said the telecom industry alone reported nearly 6,000 incidents of copper theft and infrastructure vandalism nationwide between June and December 2024. He said about one-third of the incidents happened in California."Bad actors steal encased copper cables and cut them into short lengths before burning them to remove the sheathing to reveal the raw copper inside,"last summer. "That copper is then typically sold to scrap metal dealers, some of whom, in periods of high demand, are willing to accept the valuable commodity purportedly without knowing its origin. The ripple effect of each act of vandalism, each cable cut, is massive. From public safety to health care, energy, transportation, financial systems, IT, education, and more, life today can hardly function without the infrastructure behind communications systems."SAN ANTONIO — We now know the identity of a man who was tragically struck and killed early Monday morning while he was working on his disabled vehicle on U.S. HSAN ANTONIO - A Southwest Independent School District bus overturned during the ride to school early Tuesday morning.The accident happened just after 8 a.m. alBONHAM, Texas — Community members in Bonham, just north of Dallas, are mourning the loss of three elementary school students.Bonham Independent School DistrictSAN ANTONIO - Two people are dead after flames destroyed a West Side home late Monday night.The fire broke out just before 11 p.m. at a home off South San Dari
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