A Stockton city leader is sounding the alarm, saying that there has been a spike in people stealing wire from streetlights, leaving the community unsafe and dark.
The Stockton Police Department stated that it could only find one report of wire theft in the past thirty days on Tower Hill Drive. That is a few blocks from the area of Mokelumne Circle and Eight Mile Road, where City Councilwoman Michelle Padilla said she has been seeing the spike.
On Tuesday afternoon, CBS13 found city crews hard at work there, covering wires with tarp and pouring concrete to at least a dozen streetlights…