BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Five suspects face charges in what the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office called an AT&T wire theft ring that caused widespread outages across the county.
The sheriff’s office said the investigation began in December 2025.
Working in partnership with AT&T personnel, the sheriff’s office said detectives found several burn and wire-stripping sites in Swannanoa and the Leicester community, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cut wire…