SF News San Jose Man Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $1300 Worth of Copper Wire The arrest marks yet another chapter amid a slew of recent copper thefts in Contra Costa County, which have led to frequent disruptions to phone and internet services.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alleged Copper Wire Thief Found Dead Inside East Bay Manhole A man found dead inside a Richmond manhole was apparently stealing copper wire; charges were filed against two people in a Hayward freeway shooting; and one of SF's craft breweries has announced its closure.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
SF News Metal Thieves Are Now Just Stealing Playground Equipment After an epidemic of missing copper wiring, an historical marker, a disappearing cathedral bell, mass grave robberies, and some seafaring pirates, this rash of Bay Area metal thefts has officially gone from baffling,
SF News SFPD Conducts Junkyard Sting, Finds Copper-Buying Culprits in Bayview The SFPD has been taking the rampant copper thievery around the Bay Area in the last year very seriously. Today we hear that they've been tracking the scavengers in boats near the Hunters
SF News Local Metal Thieves Are Pirates Now, Have Taken To The High Seas [Updated] The reported cases of metal theft around the Bay Area are getting increasingly elaborate, it seems. What started out as opportunistic copper wire theft, ripping off Facebook, BART and even state parks, eventually
SF News Copper Wire Thieves Ripping Off State Parks Because we are contractually obligated to share every instance of copper wire theft in the greater Bay Area, we bring you the latest report from Benicia where KTVU has discovered evidence that the
SF News Copper Theft Popular Among Middle-Age Men, Apparently In the latest updates from the war on copper theft, four men were busted after swiping copper from a PG&E yard in San Rafael last Friday night. The four men, all
SF News Accused BART Copper Thief Busted In the ongoing Depression Era-esque epidemic of stolen metal, at least one copper thief has been brought down. After nearly running over a suspect with a train last week, BART announced yesterday that
SF News Copper Thieves Are Literally Tearing Apart BART And Vallejo Right after BART officials admitted Tuesday that they have a problem with metal thieves yanking wire off the system's tracks, yet another incident of copper theft was reported. This time, thieves ripped out
SF News Copper Thief Yanks Wire From BART Tracks The BART system has the unfortunate honor of becoming the latest victim in the Bay Area's ongoing war on copper thieves after one such bandit narrowly dodged an oncoming train over the weekend.
SF News Saint Mary's Historic Church Bell Found in Oakland Salvage Yard The 122-year-old, 5,300 pound church bell stolen from St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard earlier this week was found by a homeless man in an East Bay scrapyard this afternoon, the Chronicle
SF News SFPD Nabs Three Copper Thieves in Dogpatch Sting Finally, someone is taking action against the Bay Area's copper crime syndicate that has hit everyone from Facebook HQ to local schools and churches. To respond to these less-than-electrifying crimes, SFPD has set
SF News Antioch Church Latest Victim of Bay Area Copper Thieves In what has become an alarmingly common occurrence around the Bay Area lately, copper thieves have struck again today. This time the victim is St. Ignatius of Antioch, a Catholic Church in the
SF News Copper Thieves Strike Again, Pilfer Piping from Inner Sunset School In the third such news story in the past two months, Bay Area copper thieves have struck again, this time ripping out copper pipes and rain gutters from construction sites at two Inner
SF News Copper Wire Pilfered from Future Facebook HQ At the future site of Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, police are investigating some 1,000 pounds of missing copper wire. Like the mineral-hungry prospectors that made the Bay Area a playground
