VALDOSTA — Copper thieves have struck again; this time on the Moody Family Housing property.
Tuesday around noon, deputies from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office responded to the property after receiving a trespassing report, Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk reported. According to Paulk, locks were removed from some of the storage trailers, which suggested they had been broken into.
“A complete check of inventory is not complete, but copper wire does appear to be missing from some of the trailers,” Paulk said.
Authorities are currently investigating the incident and may have a lead. Wednesday, Paulk received a call from Homerville City Manager Albert Thornton, who indicated that two copper thieves had been caught in the act in Clinch County. Due to the plague of copper burglaries in Lowndes County, Homerville authorities are allowing the LCSO to question the suspects.
Copper burglaries have been on the rise since the recent increase in the price of copper. According to Paulk, copper is now being sold for $3.78 per pound, which has many scurrying to find it wherever they can.
“Several power companies are having problems with people cutting the wire out of poles,” Paulk said in an earlier interview with The Times. “In some cases, people have also stolen ground wires, which is very dangerous.”
In the past week, copper burglaries have also been reported at Lowndes High School and Valdosta Technical College.
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Storage units at Moody Base Housing had copper wire stolen from them, one of the many copper thefts in the area since this weekend.
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