#copper-wire-theft

#copper-wire-theft

"Is everybody telling the truth? We're not sure," Program Director Kim Comstock told the San Mateo County Transportation Authority on Thursday.

Dawber noticed 17 pallets of golfing equipment, stolen three weeks prior, worth about 1 million. He also found 18 pallets of Asics trainers stolen three years earlier.

A man broke into the victim's home and stole more than $600,000 worth of property, including designer handbags and jewelry. After weeks of investigating, including working with San Diego and Glendale police, authorities executed a search warrant on the suspect's home in Temecula on Feb. 25 and found the victim's property and a whole lot more.

According to the UN's Global E-waste Monitor 2024, a record 62 million metric tons of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2022, an 82% increase since 2010. E-waste is projected to reach 82 million metric tons by 2030. In the U.S. alone, roughly 8 million tons of e-waste is discarded each year.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with robbing a local store owner, in an incident where the 72-year-old victim was run over by his assailants' car as they made off with $7,000 worth of cartons, court records show. Police describe them as a band of determined robbers who followed a man and his wife from a wholesale cigarette supplier in San Leandro to a parking lot in Concord.

Both NBC Bay Area and KTVU were covering the story that FBI agents raided four East Bay locations Wednesday morning, in what is apparently an investigation into a stolen diesel fuel ring. Both reports are short on details, but the Bay Area News Groups seems way ahead on this one, noting that the raids come "amid reports that a group of thieves had set up a station to sell stolen gasoline at an East Oakland chop shop."

Thieves used a stolen telehandler to smash into a Co-Op wall, stealing two cash machines and a large sum of cash in Plympton. Police have released CCTV footage showing at least four people arriving in stolen vehicles on 2 February this year. The John Deere telehandler, left at the scene, can be seen ramming the Glen Road store multiple times before burglars removed a cash machine and drove off in the early hours.