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W.Va. police charge man in copper theft
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Police have arrested a man they say stole up to $10,000 worth of copper wire from two different phone companies.
Michael Craig Jarrell was arrested Saturday and charged with stealing copper wire from Verizon and AT&T Mobile Communications in Cabin Creek on several occasions this month.
Jarrell was held at the Southern Regional Jail but was released Monday.
A telephone listing for the 23-year-old Gallagher resident could not be immediately found.
West Virginia saw a surge in copper theft in 2007 and 2008 as the price of the metal soared.
Reports of thefts dropped after the economy went into a tailspin at the end of last year, but police say thefts are picking up again.
