4 States Building United Front Against Copper Theft
Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana legislators are working to crack down on copper thieves, devising similar legislation so someone will not be able to steal copper from one state and try to sell it in another, WAFBreports.
According to Kurt Wall of the Louisiana Attorney General’s office, “There is so much damage done in the retrieval of those (copper) products. In other words if someone goes into a house that is under construction, they may do 10 or 20 thousand dollars’ worth of damage to retrieve maybe $200, $300-worth of recyclable materials.”