Published: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Copper wire worth $100K taken from a Penn Power substation
Three Lawrence County men are being held but have not been charged.
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — City police are investigating the theft of $100,000 worth of copper wire from a Penn Power substation on East Washington Street.
New Castle police said they were contacted by Shenango Township police after they found three Lawrence County men burning heavy gauge copper wire after midnight Monday along Ellwood Road. The Shenango Township officer recovered some of the wire and learned it may have come from a building along West Washington Street.
City police searched the area and discovered that the locks had been cut from fencing around a Penn Power substation and the rear door was pried open.
Police said a Penn Power representative checked the area and noted that spools of wire in a 12-foot-by-12 foot area were missing. Each spool weighs about 500 pounds, police said. Penn Power is doing an inventory to determine how many spools are missing.
Police said they detained the three men found burning the wire, but none had been charged as of late this morning.
In an unrelated copper theft, police reported that copper plumbing is missing from two vacant homes.
A Pollack Avenue home that was recently purchased had all of its copper removed sometime overnight from Thursday to Friday.
The copper plumbing also is missing from a home on East Washington Street. Neighbors reported hearing noises around midnight Thursday, but did not call police, authorities said.
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