A man was arrested after Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives recovered hundreds of pounds of suspected stolen copper wire and other allegedly stolen materials from an unlicensed auto dismantling yard in Compton, authorities announced Friday.
Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Major Crimes Bureau served a search warrant at the business in the 400 block of East Pine Street around 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Investigators had developed information that the business was knowingly acquiring stolen copper and other non-ferrous metals, according to LASD.
During the search, detectives discovered several hundred pounds of suspected stolen utility and telecommunications copper wire, authorities said…