ROBESON TWP., Pa. \u2013 “Over the past couple of weeks in the southern end of Robeson Township, we’ve experienced a number of thefts of cable off telephone pole lines,” Robeson Township Police Chief Joseph Brown said.<\/p>\n
Police say it’s happened along Schuylkill Road and in the area of Cold Run and Red Hill roads several times.<\/p>\n
“People are taking the lines down, and they’re melting them down to get the copper out of them and then selling the copper,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
But what they get in terms of money is nowhere near the cost of the damage they leave behind.<\/p>\n
“Between the damage that was caused and the replacement cost, it was about 15,000 (dollars) in damage just off that one incident,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
Police say they have arrested one person, but more thefts have happened since.<\/p>\n
“It’s not just Robeson Township. This is happening all over,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
And police say these quiet roads can make it easier.<\/p>\n
“We have very remote areas of the township, so it’s easier to go undetected at certain times of day,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
So if you see someone on a pole who doesn’t look like a utility worker…<\/p>\n
“If you see it, call us right away,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
Crime Alert Berks County is offering a reward for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBESON TWP., Pa. \u2013 “Over the past couple of weeks in the southern end of Robeson Township, we’ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114892,114891,3628,128,130,129,12748,114893],"class_list":["post-273068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-cable-theft","tag-copper-theft","tag-police-investigation","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-robeson-township","tag-utility-lines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}