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Posted on 05/08/2023 10:56:56 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Three Stockton men were arrested over the weekend, accused of cutting and stealing cable and phone lines in an incident that left a rural California county’s dispatch center unable to receive 911 calls for several hours.
AT&T fiber optic cable lines were found cut near Highway 88 around 9:30 a.m. Sunday — for the second time in as many weeks at the same location — the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Deputies and California Highway Patrol personnel responded that afternoon to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked off of Highway 124 south of Ione, according to deputies.
The vehicle, a red Ford SUV, had expired registration tags and was towed, sheriff’s officials wrote. A search turned up evidence of copper wire theft, “copious amounts of stripped copper wire” and drug paraphernalia inside the SUV, according to the news release.
Authorities also found a “freshly cut length of service wire” near the vehicle, sheriff’s officials wrote. The trio of suspects was reportedly interrupted by AT&T workers responding to the outage when they fled.
As deputies were processing the towed vehicle, one of the three men exited the woods and approached the deputies with his hands up, admitting he was the owner of the vehicle, the Sheriff’s Office wrote.
Deputies and CHP officers detained the first suspect, then followed three sets of footprints into a marshy area along Highway 124.
The two remaining suspects eventually emerged from the marsh and were detained, sheriff’s officials wrote. Authorities linked all three suspects, who were “covered in mud and sticks,” to the vehicle and the wire theft.
The three men were identified as Elpidio Rivera, 42; Joel Rivera-Villa, 25; and Hialario Lopez-Rodriguez, 35, all of Stockton.
All three were arrested and booked into the Amador County Jail …
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Import millions of uneducated, dirt poor third world criminals and guess what happens?
But at least the Dems get the voting power they need.
Knock me over with a feather!
I wonder if these jokesters were going to try to melt down the optical fibers?! Would they really have had the necessary technical know-how to salvage this stuff without irreparably damaging it? How would they have gotten rid of the copper wire? Who would have "fenced" it for them? I know that copper is valuable - but would the effort and risk have, ultimately, been worth it? (They were caught, so apparently not, in any case.)
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The three men were identified as Elpidio Rivera, 42; Joel Rivera-Villa, 25; and Hialario Lopez-Rodriguez, 35, all of Stockholm <-— blonded hair too.
Whites Hispanics
I think you can only get the status of ‘white Hispanic’, if you have a English vocabulary of 1,000 words or more. //sarcasm off
Wonder if there’s anything valuable in all those public EV charges they’ll start putting out there?
For some reason, this brings to mind the report of people in Mexico, a few years ago, who found some kind of spigot on a gasoline pipeline. They began stealing the gasoline on a regular basis by draining it into various containers. Everything went well until a spark ignited a giant explosion and killed four of the gasoline thieves.
Thieves have already been vandalizing and stealing the copper wires of EV charging stations. Those exposed cables are quite thick and valuable. The wires are thick because of the higher electrical amperages of the charging stations which require heavier copper wire.
EV charging stations will be an ongoing source of violent crime, too. Those vehicles needing a charge are immobile for an extended period of time as vehicles wait in line or while charging. EV charging stations are an obvious target-rich environment for armed robbers and thieves.
As millions of desperately poor, unskilled and illiterate illegals continue to flood the United States, Americans can expect a dramatic increase in such infrastructure thefts.
Years ago, as the U.S. military left Somalia, the locals were digging up and stealing copper water pipes and wires and other materials installed by the U.S. as quickly as the soldiers began departing.
Don’t tell anybody that wind turbines are full of copper wiring.
“Thieves have already been vandalizing and stealing the copper wires of EV charging stations.”
The first duty of any government is to protect the people from foreign invasion and criminal activity. When a government declines to provide this essential function over time, civilization ends and anarchy reigns.
LOL. Yep, I wonder if they are white supremicists?
The funny thing is that you can’t sell that kind of cable for copper scrap. It has too much tin in it. It’s practically worthless.
(Elpidio Rivera, Joel Rivera-Villa, and Hialario Lopez-Rodriguez: stealing copper utility cable Americans are too lazy to steal.)
Just doing the jobs Americans refuse to do - George W Bush
They did it out of love - Jeb! Bush
All of Mexico, not Stockton ya idiots.
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