SF News Despite Strike Ending, VTA Trains Won’t Run Friday, Because Thieves Stole So Much Copper Wire It will not be a smooth resumption of service for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority trains after their workers’ strike ended Wednesday, because thieves stole so much copper wire off the tracks that the trains can’t run again until next week.
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 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 Metal Thieves Are Also Grave Robbers, Steal $85,000 Of Bronze From Colma Cemetery Railway bandits, church bell thieves, pirates and now grave robbers? This current recession stands to send the Barbary Coast in to a state of complete recycling lawlessness. As the Chronicle reports this afternoon,
