ST. LOUIS – Three men remain jailed following two separate investigations into wire theft in tornado-damaged neighborhoods in north St. Louis in recent days.
According to probable cause statements from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the thefts occurred June 4 and June 6.
In the first incident, a police officer was working a disaster relief shift when he saw black powerline cable in the bed of a moving pickup truck in the 1100 block of Walton Avenue, in the Fountain Park neighborhood. There were no front or rear license plates on the truck…