Crooked Utility Workers Plotted with Copper Thieves
A gang of copper thieves who “colluded” with crooked BT employees to steal a quarter of a million pounds worth of underground cables have been jailed for a total of 32 and a half years in Great Britain, according to Daily Mail.
The thieves stole a telecoms van, including overalls so they could pose as BT workers, and searched London for redundant cabling that could be pulled up, stripped down and sold, the article says. The gang caused a £279,635 loss to BT in terms of stolen property and damage. The cables were seized at a scrap yard in Dagenham, Essex.