A group of brazen copper wire thieves continued to target the Harbor Gateway community during the Thanksgiving holiday, with their latest string of thefts captured on camera. The thieves, using grinders to cut wires from poles, have caused around $500,000 in damage to one building by cutting off power and waiting for backup alarms. They have also targeted a railroad crossing, stealing copper from crossing signals and ransacking a nearby building.
While brazen copper wire thieves continued to target the Harbor Gateway community during the Thanksgiving holiday, their latest string of thefts were all caught on camera.'Our community right now is just being ravaged by this group that's stealing copper,'The cameras captured the suspects using a grinder to cut several wires from poles, before putting the copper in a shopping cart and walking away.
'They actually took the LADWP transformers, stole all the copper went into the building and ransacked that building,' Matthews said. More recently, thieves targeted a railroad crossing down the street, according to Matthews. 'They deactivated all the crossing signals on two specific streets, stealing the copper,' Matthews added. 'They're stealing copper out of anything and everything.'Tuesday morning, a video shows a thief falling from a power pole at 2:15 a.m.
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