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LOS ANGELES – Copper wire thieves reportedly hit another Los Angeles<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n Along Wells Drive near Amigo Avenue in Tarzana<\/a> is a much too familiar sight for many in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Clear signs that these wires have been tampered with in Tarzana.<\/p>\n LAPD says early this morning officers responded to take a report of copper wire theft.<\/p>\n From neighbors’ surveillance video, you can see the wires dangling by 4:12 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n The theft is part of a broader pattern across Los Angeles that has caused widespread outages and strained repair efforts.<\/p>\n Less than a week ago, copper wire thieves in Van Nuys were caught on video stealing underground internet cables, leaving residents without service and street lighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n City officials are responding with plans to install solar-powered streetlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the meantime, residents in Tarzana were surprised to walk by police tape and dangling wires as they stepped outside Sunday. They’re hoping this will not become a trend in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n “I was horrified, and truth be told, this is a really nice neighborhood. All of us have Ring cameras and cameras around our homes, so I think we all need to be hyper vigilant right now about keeping an eye out for this type of crime,” one resident said.<\/p>\n To fund long-term maintenance, the City Council authorized the Bureau of Street Lighting to begin the process of raising property assessment fees for the first time in nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n This hike is estimated to generate $125 million to address infrastructure decay.<\/p>\n The success of the proposed assessment fee increase is subject to proceedings that allow property owners to protest or reject the tax.<\/p>\n LAPD says as of Sunday evening, no suspects are in custody, but the Department of Water and Power has been notified about this incident.<\/p>\n Tarzana<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Los Angeles<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – Copper wire thieves reportedly hit another Los Angeles neighborhood. Along Wells Drive near Amigo Avenue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,2042,48,52,6086,51,47,137,50,49,100,38424,1181],"class_list":["post-253857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-los-angeles-county","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-tarzana","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}