A copper wire heist at a warehouse in the Hollenbeck District of Los Angeles left a small business owner powerless.
The thieves took at least $100,000 worth of copper wire, piling it into the back of business owner Damon McCarthy’s military humvee and driving away. KNX News’ Emily Valdez spoke to McCarthy, the business owner, about the theft.
“We think that they came in yesterday morning and disarmed everything and shut everything down, sort of spied on the building to see if anybody was going to come, and then came back in the middle of the night and maybe spent three hours here,” he said. “We don't really know because there was no monitoring system. They'd shut it all off.”
McCarthy said the thieves went down from the roof into the building and they cut a person-sized hole into the wall. He said they knew exactly where to go and stripped the entire building of the wires inside the walls.
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A neighbor caught a video of the thieves leaving in McCarthy’s military humvee. McCarthy recovered the humvee a few blocks away, but all the copper wire was gone.
McCarthy said two police officers told him to make a report online, but haven’t returned to the warehouse to investigate.
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