Renton police said they made several arrests with “criminals going to extreme lengths to steal (copper) wire” over the past few days.
On Saturday just before 10 a.m., officers were called to a construction site near the 300 block of Edmonds Avenue Southeast. A concerned resident called 911 after seeing two men taking copper cable from a Puget Sound Energy work site, police said.
When police arrived, they found a 64-year-old man from Ravensdale and a 56-year-old man from Kent pulling a rope that was hooked to some copper power cable.
Police said the cable had been cut between power towers, which was not an active power line. The
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