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Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008 | 2:45 p.m.
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- Metro turns up heat on metal thievery(8-14-2008)
- Thefts lead to blackouts and wasted tax dollars (1-23-2008)
- Not what thieves thought (8-16-2007)
Two scrap metal yards raided early Wednesday morning in the northeastern section of the Las Vegas Valley yielded at least eight stolen vehicles and metals, valued at more than $700,000, Metro Police reported today.
Detectives from Metro Police, North Las Vegas Police, Henderson Police, city of Las Vegas marshals, Clark County School District police officers and the FBI's Las Vegas office served search warrants at two ABC Recycling centers. Police called the monthslong investigation Operation Bone Yard after the street name of junk yards and chop shops.
Police reported the following items were seized:
-- From 2630 Betty Lane: 10 vehicles were impounded as evidence. Eight of 203 vehicles that were inspected were confirmed stolen. One is a possible stolen vehicle and is missing its vehicle identification number.
-- From 2480 Pariva St.: 58 pallets containing copper, aluminum and other metals valued at about $300,000 were impounded as evidence.
Police also seized nine forklifts, two dump trucks, two scales, three pallet jacks, several wire stripping machines and about 10 other large pieces of equipment valued at about $400,000.
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After hundreds of news reports about stolen copper and other metals the police finally make their move?
They could have had a camera on every recycler years ago.
Just like every guy that walks out of a bar and gets into a car is a drunk driver.
Where else were they going to "fence" stolen copper wire?
That is what I beleive to be true about anybody with a computer is an identity thief.
Get real people. Scrap metal has been being stolen long before the media jumped on the band wagon of implying that all that ails society stems from the scrap metal industry.
There is a bad element that exists along side the honest hard working people who choose to make their living in what has been called "the second oldest profession."
It is wrong to imply anyone who buys or sells junk is involved in crime.