Police arrested a man on Tinian over the weekend for allegedly stealing hundreds of feet of copper wire from the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. <\/p>\n
Mario Borja Adriano, 32, was arrested on charges of theft, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass. His bail was set yesterday at $20,000 cash; preliminary hearing is on Jan. 25 at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n
Police said a Tinian CUC employee had called police last Dec. 13 to report that someone had stolen CUC\u2019s drop line at a home in Marpo Heights. The CUC employee said that he and his partner noticed the missing service drop line leading to a house during a routine check on weather heads.<\/p>\n
The same CUC employee called the police again last Dec. 18 to report that 100 feet of CUC wire had been stolen from a telephone pole leading to an abandoned house.<\/p>\n
The CUC staff then contacted the police last Dec. 26 to report that 120 feet of CUC wire that was being used as a drop line to an abandoned house had also been stolen.<\/p>\n
The following day, Dec. 27, the CUC employee reported to police that a routine check on another abandoned house again showed that about 320 feet of CUC wire had been stolen.<\/p>\n
In an interview with an employee of a recycling center last Jan. 8, police learned that Adriano had sold copper wire to the center last Dec. 18 and 19.<\/p>\n
Police seized the stolen wire weighing 33 kilos that were valued at over $1,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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