Crime & Safety

Copper Wire Thieves Hit Two Milton Locations

The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Copper wire was reported stolen from two locations in Milton on the same day.

The first report came at 8:19 a.m. on July 16. Cobb EMC Energy Co. officials called Milton police to an Arnold Mill Road address where approximately 140 feet of wire was stolen from five different circuits. The lock on a gate to the property had been cut.

An alarm motion was detected at 3:20 a.m., which the Cobb EMC official said he saw when he got to his computer at 6:30 a.m.

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A Georgia Transmission employee who came to the scene said the gate was locked at 3 p.m. the day before.  He also said his company recorded a motion alarm at 2:10 a.m. Another 100 feet of copper wire owned by Georgia Transmission had been cut out and stolen.

He estimated the total value of the wire for both companies was $5,000.

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Less than an hour later, the Milton officer and investigator were at a second Milton location where Georgia Transmission had another 100 feet of wire cut and stolen.

Officers were called to Hopewell and Westbrook roads to investigate.

A Georgia Transmission employee had been at the site on July 11. A contractor who came to the same address on July 16 at 8:45 a.m. only to find the gate wasn't secured and copper had been stolen.

The thefts remain under investigation.

 For questions about this blotter, email Bob Pepalis.


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