Scrap metal recyclers have been targeted in undercover sting operations in San Jose, resulting in criminal citations last month, police said Monday.
Detectives with the Police Department’s vice unit conducted the operations at several recycling centers in the city following an increase in copper wire thefts, police said in a press release.
Undercover officers visited the metal recyclers with spools of copper wire, electronic components, and metal items to sell as “stolen” property, with the help of the department’s financial crimes unit and the city’s Department of Transportation, police said…