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Thieves take copper tubing from three places in Pittsfield
July 12,2006
(Pittsfield, MASS) - Pittsfield police are investigating three incidents involving stolen copper tubing that have occurred in the past week.

Police Captain John O'Neil says about 85 feet of copper tubing was stolen from a former restaurant on Dalton Avenue, which is being renovated. The tubing was connected to three condenser units and ran along an exterior wall. The tubing is worth about 255-dollars.

Police also discovered that about 15 feet of copper tubing was stolen from an air conditioner at Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop on South Street. And about two-thousand feet of copper tubing valued at three-thousand dollars was stolen from S-and-A Supply Company on East Street.


Going to have to start hiring security guards,

 

[dduffee260]

I've been doing that for a couple of years now. I'm thinking about changing it to customer ownership when delivered to the job-site. I have a storage container on a job with $70,000 worth of wire purchased a year ago (customer paid for it, but it's in my trailer). The replacement cost for this wire is over $140,000. If it gets stolen, we will have a battle as to who is buying the replacement wire.

How large of a project is it to have that much wire? Also it has been a year, seems like that amount should be almost at completion after a year.

Just curious because we have almost the same amount and ours has been on site for 4 months and we are due for completion in 3 months.

 

[hardworkingstiff]

How large of a project is it to have that much wire? Also it has been a year, seems like that amount should be almost at completion after a year.

Just curious because we have almost the same amount and ours has been on site for 4 months and we are due for completion in 3 months.

It's a marina and the wire is type W cable. The job got delayed for multiple reasons. Once we get started, we should have all the wire pulled in about 2 weeks.

 

[hockeyoligist2]

$50,000 in wire taken from construction site
Lock hacked off in heist

Published: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 11:38 am



By Claire Anderson
STAFF WRITER
canderson@greenvillenews.com


Greenville police believe someone cut through a chain on a fence and then hacked off the lock to a trailer to take more than $50,000 of wire from a construction site on Millenium Drive, according to an incident report.

Police found tire tracks leading up to the trailer, the incident report said.

A site supervisor told police that vehicles don't drive up to the trailers for work, the incident report said.

An employee of Fountain Electric, the construction company, discovered the theft Monday morning.

Anyone with information may call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 23-CRIME.