Police look for "electrocuted" (shocked) man who apparently was stealing copper

[Robert Gift]

Police in Colorado search for electrocuted man after charred clothing, cut wire discovered during power outage

Police in Commerce City are searching for a man who has been electrocuted after charred clothing and a cut wire were discovered during a power outage.

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[Sylvan]

Electrocutions frequently occur when individuals attempt to steal valuable copper wire from active utility poles, transformers, or underground cables.

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Recent high-profile incidents include:

• Fayette County, Pennsylvania: A man was fatally electrocuted while attempting to strip wiring from an active electrical line on Laurel Hill Road in Dunbar Township.
• Franklin County, Missouri: A 34-year-old man was killed by a high-voltage shock while attempting to steal copper wire from a utility pole, an incident that also led to criminal charges for a fleeing associate.
• Pomona, California: A man cutting underground cables caused a major explosion and knocked out power to roughly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Theft of copper from infrastructure poses severe risks of fatal burns, explosions, and regional power outages.

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[bigb56]

We had a couple of guys stealing large neutral wires from underground vaults. They knew enough to know you could get away with it as long as there was still other paths to ground, but eventually they cut one that was the only remaining path. The reason we know there was 2 is because they found the charred remains of the one that took the blast after opening the manhole cover that his buddy had put back in place after leaving the guy down there.