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PG&E Hit Hard By Antioch Copper Thefts
ANTIOCH (KCBS) – Copper wire continues to be snatched from the East Bay city of Antioch this year, and that’s translating into a big problem for Pacific Gas and Electric – considering how much the...
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Antioch Copper Wire Thieves Reach New High – Or Low
ANTIOCH (KCBS) – Just days after Pacific Gas and Electric lamented the ongoing and widespread theft of copper wire from its Antioch power poles, the utility is now revealing that a particularly brazen...
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Rash Of Copper Wire Thefts Plague Vallejo Schools; Start Of School Year May...
VALLEJO (CBS 5) -– Copper theft is nothing new in the Bay Area. But thieves have been particularly busy in Vallejo, where several schools were stripped of the valuable metal in recent weeks. The...
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Bronze Dog Statue Stolen From Marin Humane Society
NOVATO (CBS 5) — Skippy the dog was an ambassador for the Marin Humane Society. Just weeks after his death, a bronze statue donated in Skippy’s honor has gone missing. Before his death on July 17th,...
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Vallejo Police Report A Rash Of Storm Drain Thefts
VALLEJO (KCBS) – The grates over storm drains have been disappearing in Vallejo at a rapid pace, leaving several dangerous gaping holes next to street curbs. In the past few weeks nearly 20 metal...
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Redwood City Sees Rash Of Metal Thefts
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) – Fire officials in Redwood City are warning property owners that brass fittings are being stolen from sprinkler systems and standpipes throughout the city. Fire Marshal Jim...
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Copper Thieves Targeting Schools In San Francisco’s Sunset District
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — San Francisco police are investigating the theft of copper from schools in the city’s Sunset District, including one school that has been hit four times in the past week, police...
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Concord Thieves Target Toyota Catalytic Converters
CONCORD (CBS SF) — Concord police and Concord Toyota are offering a new program to help prevent catalytic converter thefts from Toyota trucks and 4Runners, which has been an expensive and ongoing...
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Metal Thieves Strike Antioch Church Again
ANTIOCH (CBS / AP) — Officials of an Antioch church are looking at thousands of dollars in repairs after the church was hit by thieves for the fourth time in two months. The Contra Costa Times reports...
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3 Arrested In San Francisco Stolen Metal Sting
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Three people were arrested at a recycling center in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood after buying stolen copper and other metals from undercover police officers early...
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Copper Wire Stolen From Light Poles In Petaluma Park
PETALUMA (CBS SF) — Petaluma police said between 1,500 and 1,800 feet of copper wire was stolen from six light poles at Prince Park over the weekend. A citizen reported the theft around 9:30 a.m....
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700-Pound Pelican Statue Stolen From Novato Park
NOVATO (KCBS) —- Metal thieves have struck Novato in a big way, taking a bronze pelican statue from a city park. The 700-pound statue was placed in Scottsdale Pond Park in 2007. It was named Omay, the...
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Historic Copper Bell Stolen From San Francisco Cathedral
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A landmark bell was reported stolen from the garden at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco on Sunday morning. The copper bell, which is about 4 feet tall, 5 feet wide and...
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Stolen SF Cathedral Bell Recovered Near Oakland Scrap Yard
WEST OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Police have told the Archdiocese of San Francisco that they had found a 5,300 pound, historic bell that had been stolen last Sunday from the grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral....
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Copper Thieves Stealing From Operating BART Tracks
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – In recent weeks, copper thieves have begun targeting Bay Area Rapid Transit tracks during normal service hours. A BART spokesperson said there have been three incidents this week....
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BART Police Arrest Suspected Copper Thief
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Bay Area Rapid Transit officers have arrested a man suspected of stealing copper wire from its trackways. The man was taken into custody Thursday when police served a search...
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Concord Votes To Foot The Bill For Copper Thefts
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – As cities and agencies around the Bay Area work to figure out how to pay for the recent rash of copper thefts, the Concord City Council voted Tuesday night to spend nearly half...
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Copper Thieves Dressed As Utility Workers Target Sunnyvale Street Lights
SUNNYVALE (KCBS) – Thieves who may be dressed as utility workers have broken into a number of underground vaults beneath street light poles in Sunnyvale in order to make off with large amounts of...
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Metal Thieves Steal 500 Flower Holders From Colma Graves
COLMA (CBS / AP) — Metal thieves looking to cash in on the rising value of copper and brass have swiped cables from subway tracks and wiring from utility poles. Now police say they’ve hit the cemetery...
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Concord Plagued By Copper Thefts
CONCORD (KCBS) – Concord officials are looking to stop copper thieves from striking in the city when it can least afford it. Like other cities in the state, Concord is struggling with a budget that...
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NorCal Copper Thieves Knocking Down Rural Utility Poles
FRESNO (CBS/AP) — Brazen thieves are now knocking down utility poles in rural areas of the Central Valley to get valuable copper wiring. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said the new tactic by wire...
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Contra Costa DA Targets Metal Dealers In Copper Theft Crackdown
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (CBS 5) – A new crackdown on copper thefts in the East Bay involves undercover work by investigators to catch scrap metal dealers who may have bought stolen goods. It’s no secret...
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Sonoma Man Arrested In Theft Of Vineyard Sprinklers For Metal Value
SONOMA COUNTY (CBS SF) – A Sonoma man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of frost-prevention sprinklers from vineyards in Sonoma County, a Sonoma County sheriff’s sergeant said....
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Metal Thieves Steal Bleachers, Irrigation Pipes From San Francisco Park
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Metal thieves have hauled away aluminum bleachers and irrigation pipes from San Francisco’s Crocker-Amazon Park. The brazen thieves also tried to steal the metal frames of...
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2 Arrested During Milpitas Copper Theft
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Two San Jose men were arrested on suspicion of stealing copper wire from a commercial building in Milpitas on Friday morning, police said. Police received a call from an employee at...
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Metal Thieves Target Storm Drains In Union City
UNION CITY (CBS 5) — Officials in Union City are resorting to chains and locks to stop a rash of recent metal thefts. “People are coming out in the middle of the night, prying them up and are stealing...
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2 Suspected Copper Thieves Arrested In Petaluma PG&E Yard
PETALUMA (CBS SF) — Two men were arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of stealing copper wire from a PG&E yard in Petaluma, police said. Officers responded to a report of a suspicious person...
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Newark Man Arrested For Stealing City-Owned Copper Spool
NEWARK (CBS SF) — A Newark man was arrested Monday night on suspicion of stealing a city-owned spool of copper wire from a work site in Benicia, police said. Daniel Reeves, 37, was arrested around 8:30...
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Metal Thieves Target Fire Hydrants In Cash-Strapped Modesto
MODESTO (KCBS) – It’s believed that metal thieves are looking at a new source of possible income in Modesto – fire hydrants. Crews worked on Thursday to replace five fire hydrants that were discovered...
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Novato Cop Hurt While Chasing PG&E Copper Theft Suspects
NOVATO (KCBS) – A Novato police officer was injured during a chase with two suspects believed to have been attempting to steal copper from a PG&E substation, according to police. Around 3:00 a.m.,...
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Bronze Memorial Plaques Stolen From Modesto Church
MODESTO (CBS/AP) — Dozens of bronze plaques have been pried off a memorial wall at a Modesto church. The small plaques, which featured names of deceased parishioners as well as dates of birth and...
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Vallejo Using Tech Tricks To Bring An End To Copper Thefts
VALLEJO (CBS SF) – A high-tech solution may be the answer to a national epidemic of one low-tech crime – metal theft. The Contra Costa Times reports that Vallejo has invested in GPS technology to help...
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Bay Area Power Outages Blamed On Copper Thieves, Downed Trees
OAKLAND (KCBS)—PG&E is investigating the possibility that copper thieves were to blame for a power outage in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Tuesday night. Meanwhile a fallen tree in San Francisco...
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1 Arrested In Attempted Copper Theft At Fremont Shopping Center
FREMONT (CBS SF) — Police arrested a suspect and attempted to locate another suspect who were interrupted while attempting to steal copper wire from a shopping center rooftop in Fremont on Tuesday...
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Power Outage At UC Berkeley Leads To Explosion; 1 Hospitalized
BERKELEY (KCBS/KPIX 5) — A power outage triggered an explosion and fire at the University of California at Berkeley on Monday evening, prompting an emergency evacuation of the campus and hospitalizing...
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Power Restored To Most Of UC Berkeley After Outage, Explosion
BERKELEY (CBS / AP) — Power was restored to most of the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday as officials confirmed that the theft of copper cables from a substation caused a campus-wide...
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Arrest Made In Copper Theft At Apple’s ‘Spaceship’ Campus
CUPERTINO (CBS SF) — A Belmont man was arrested Saturday in the theft of copper pipes and wiring from a former Hewlett-Packard Corp. property in Cupertino where Apple Corp. is planning its Apple 2...
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Sheriff Hoping Social Media Helps Catch VTA Copper Thieves
SAN JOSE (KCBS)— Copper thieves have struck once again in the Bay Area, this time ripping out copper wiring from a VTA light rail train station in San Jose, but this time authorities have taken to...
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Copper Theft Blamed For Flooding On Highway 87 In San Jose
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – Caltrans is blaming a group of metal thieves for flooding on Highway 87 during stormy weather Friday morning. The agency said thieves took copper wiring from a sump pump that was...
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Surveillance Cameras Capture Copper Theft At San Jose Recycling Business
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — The copper thieves knew what they wanted and wasted little time in taking it. “It’s a pretty big loss for us,” said Adam Dao of Leo Recycling. Surveillance cameras recorded the...
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