Article: Legislation targets copper thieves.

Byline: M.J. Ellington

Apr. 10--MONTGOMERY -- A hysterical minister called his local legislator after he discovered that somebody stole the heating and cooling systems of his sanctuary. He did not understand why. The owner of a fancy new barn with high-tech components did not understand why the electricity did not work the day he began moving equipment and animals into the structure. Thieves had cut out the electrical wiring just after the electrical inspection and just before the drywall went up. Nobody on the drywall crew noticed. Crews had to tear out the drywall and rewire the barn. In a new home for sale in Central Alabama, a long, jagged hole in ...

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