Two Charged With Stealing Copper Wire from Chicken House
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A Carthage man caught two people in his chicken house cutting copper wire today resulting in arrests by Moore County Sheriff's Office investigators.
James Pallin Kiser, 33, of 83 Ryan Drive, Cameron, and Teresa Grace Mullen, 50, of 6693 Swanns Station Road, Sanford, have both been charged with breaking, entering and felony larceny and possession of stolen goods, according to a press release.
The arrests stemmed from the report to the Sheriff's Office on Monday from the Carthage man that someone had broken into his chicken house located on Dowd Road and removed 4,500 feet of copper wire, according to the press release.
The same man reported to the Sheriff's Office today that he had caught two people in his chicken house cutting wire, according to the release, leading to the arrest of Kiser and Mullen. Some of the copper wire was located at Lee Iron & Metal Company in Sanford, according to the release.
Both were jailed, with bail set at $100,000.
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Bflat 2 years ago
When are those places that purchase the copper wire going to be required to get proof of ownership of the wire?
mooremedic 2 years ago
This is your brain on drugs.......pitiful.
Yukonjohn 2 years ago
Shame the story did not read....and the farmer thought they had gone for a weapon and left them there on the floor!! I know times are hard, but stealing is stealing, and should not be tolerated!!
KarenH 2 years ago
True,times are hard-they are even harder on farmers than on theives. The only difference is a few hundred dollars in copper wire costs the farmer thousands because the theives have destroyed the whole wiring system and it will all have to be redone.
teufelhunden 2 years ago
Wonder if she's his sugar-mama or mama-mama...
Bflat 2 years ago
Wire isn't the only thing being stolen...copper pipes from under houses, from water heaters, heat pumps and everything the thieves can get their hands on.
MomOf2 2 years ago
My husband works for an AC warehouse and they are constantly replacing residential AC units because people are cutting the copper coil out of them and they wake up the next morning and their units are trashed. It's very sad that people are resorting to these measure and you know they will get probation and be out again to keep doing it.
eastwd2 2 years ago
Wow just when you think you know a person.wow!! Really
HillTopper 2 years ago
If you steal copper, where do you sell it? Seems like that's the place to start to shut this down. No buyers, why steal it?
mooremedic 2 years ago
Well we really don't want to shut down a needed service just because of the people that abuse it do we?....recycling is a vital service and the honest people in the world do need somewhere to sell or scrap these materials...but we do need better regulation of the buyers so there is enough rules and regulations to make it harder for these crooks to make an easy buck...