A downtown Riverside bar reopened on Tuesday after being closed for two weeks due to the damage caused by flooding when a vandal stole copper pipe from their plumbing system.
“As soon as we pulled into parking in the driveway, water was just running down the driveway,” said Debbie Hodson, the one who arrived to work in April and discovered the aftermath of the crime at Arts Bar and Grill on University Avenue.
Andrea “Dre” Palagi, who owns the bar, says that a thief stole about eight feet of two-inch copper plumbing line, which was connected to the property’s main water line…