A man who disabled Tucson streetlights by stealing their copper wiring will pay more than 46 thousand dollars in reparations. The payment is part of the man’s plea deal.
Tucson tries to design street lights to moderate lighting so there’s a dark sky for astronomers but this is something else: streetlights knocked out entirely because thieves ripped out and ripped off copper wire to sell it for scrap.
It costs the city of Tucson time and money to try to keep up with repairs. Last September KGUN9 reported streetlights coming back on in one Northside neighborhood. But Seth Nilson told us it had been a frustrating wait…