AUSTIN, Texas — Copper thieves continue to strike across Central Texas, but are looking for it in the wrong places and causing infrastructure issues that could impact everyone.
Austin Police Department (APD) say fiber cables are at risk of being damaged, because they say thieves believe there is copper to collect from the cables. All they find is tiny glass fibers that connect Texans to the world and even emergency services.
And these recent incidents involving the destruction of cables show Spectrum construction supervisor Charlie Barrington that it can be the small things that often create the biggest messes…