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LA’s Wire Theft Crisis Explodes | Venice Beach News
LA’s wire theft epidemic is spiraling out of control, making it the nation’s top hotspot for copper-snatching crimes. In August, Spectrum and Verizon suffered massive outages as thieves targeted phone and internet lines — even cutting fiber optic cables that contain no copper at all. With copper prices soaring from $2 to $6.61 per pound over the past decade, criminals are relentless, causing chaos for thousands. Authorities are still hunting suspects, with recovered copper traced to a recycling facility where the owner claims ignorance. Both telecom giants are offering $25,000 bounties for…
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