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NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) - Two brothers have been charged with stealing a western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15 1/2 tons of scrap metal for more than $5,000.

Police say 24-year-old Benjamin Arthur Jones and 25-year-old Alexander Williams Jones of New Castle used a blowtorch to break up the bridge in late September or early October. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.

Authorities say Alexander Jones told a recycling company employee that he had permission to carve the bridge for scrap and showed the employee cellphone photos of the bridge. The recycling company called police.

The 50-foot-long by 20-foot-wide Covert's Crossing Bridge was in a wooded area about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.

The brothers' phone numbers weren't listed, and it's unclear whether they have attorneys



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Wow. Around this area there are people who steal the aluminum siding from people's houses and scrap it. Although that practice has slowed down recently as the amount of houses that still have aluminum siding is dwindling and people are getting killed or wounded by people who are protecting their property. Imagine that. :rolleyes:
 
A few years back the older homes here, and we're talking very old. were having their coppergutters and downspouts stolen during the night.

My local Elks club was a victim, then they returned and stole sections of cast iron fence!

Local scrap metal dealers now get visits from police on a regular basis, bastages were stealing manhole covers!!!
 
We were dealing with manhole covers getting stolen too....the scrap yards finally got to the point they wouldn't accept them. Some theives would hit graveyards and take copper and bronze vases off of graves too.....statues from churches were also a target.

A scam going around now is people going to houses with copper gutters and offering to clean them. What they are doing is breaking the solder and coming back later when the homeowners aren't there and stealing them.

A few badguys have gotten zapped from trying to steal copper wires from houses...nice to see some justification in those cases.

Catalytic converters off cars that are parked in commuter lots are huge too.
 
I save aluminum cans, and ANY metal I can get my hands on. (in a legal way) I was at the scrap yard one day and a lady walked up. The guy there told her to leave or he's calling the cops. She had tried to sell stolen cable and walked up looking for someone else to bring it up saying "I don't have a way to bring it"

There are stacks of road signs in their main building people have sold or tired to sell. One of my buddy's had a chain link fence that he had stacked up next to his building. One night someone came and stacked it up and stole it.


I'll save the pop tops to beer bottles, starts out so I can keep track of how many I drink but the next morning.....um afternoon when I count them out I toss them in my steel collection. In the end might just get a penny for then, but hey I'm going green! Lol

Wheel, parts off the racecar. I just toss it a side. Let the collection build up and haul it off. I'd say I have close to 100 pounds of cans right now.

I had a carp load of cable, but no one will even steal it. Because I guess they even know it's not worth anything, plus no one wants this type of cable anyway.
 
I recently took a 60 year old three phase generator to the salvage yard as parts were no longer available for it. I had stripped the copper from the windings and while waiting in line to have it weighed, saw people bring in coils of what was obviously new plumbing copper. It was weighed and they were paid, no questions that I heard.
Now I'm curious, at what point do salvage yard operators question and what items do they question? If they do.
 
fergy1370 said:
Catalytic converters off cars that are parked in commuter lots are huge too.
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Inskip Mtrs, high end dealer with MB,Porshe,Audi, Bentley etc had over 200 cats stolen one night off of NEW cars in inventory a year or so ago. Battery operated Sawzall is all that you need.
 
Whizzer said:
Now I'm curious, at what point do salvage yard operators question and what items do they question? If they do.
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I think it has to do with how reputable the dealer is and how fast he can get the stuff to a smelter...
 
Whizzer said:
Now I'm curious, at what point do salvage yard operators question and what items do they question? If they do.
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They don't, that's part of the problem....they know they can get twice the amount of money for the items that gets brought to them. All they have to do if questioned is say, "I got it from so and so...." But some are tired of getting bugged by the cops, especially for items that any person with common sense would know is stolen. When one guy brings in six manhole covers that's marked "VDOT", it’s called a clue...

Some pawn shops are the same....one guy brings in 10 GPS units should raise a little suspicion.
 
I had several 55 gallon drums full of copper wire that I had saved and burned the insulation off. I was on vacation earlier this year and someone took all three drums. They drove a vehicle and a tractor around to the back of my shop and loaded them into the vehicle. My neighbors watched and never thought anything of it.
 
fergy1370 said:
They don't, that's part of the problem....they know they can get twice the amount of money for the items that gets brought to them. All they have to do if questioned is say, "I got it from so and so...." But some are tired of getting bugged by the cops, especially for items that any person with common sense would know is stolen. When one guy brings in six manhole covers that's marked "VDOT", it’s called a clue...

Some pawn shops are the same....one guy brings in 10 GPS units should raise a little suspicion.
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I understand the part about a clue, but is there any legal obligation by salvage yards or pawn shop owners to notify law enforcement if they suspect something doesn't appear to be proper? A gal comes in with ripped jeans and is dressed down, tries to pawn a $5000.00 Rolex as an example. Just curious what the parameters, if any, might be the responsibility of the pawn shop or salvage yard.
 
Whizzer said:
I understand the part about a clue, but is there any legal obligation by salvage yards or pawn shop owners to notify law enforcement if they suspect something doesn't appear to be proper? A gal comes in with ripped jeans and is dressed down, tries to pawn a $5000.00 Rolex as an example. Just curious what the parameters, if any, might be the responsibility of the pawn shop or salvage yard.
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Legal obligation, no....morale, maybe. Like SST said, it depends on what kind of person the dealer is.

Your example of a girl with ripped jeans and dressed down selling a Rolex won't hold any water. Maybe she likes to dress that way. It would be called profiling if the po-po did that.

Pawn shops, in the state of VA anyway, must report all items they brought in during a day, everyday. All of the items information; serial number, brand, model number, gets dumped into a huge database that is searchable by the police. Some databases used will have pawn shops as far north as Delaware. If the police is working a case with stolen items and the victim has serial numbers to the stolen items, the numbers can be used to search for the item in the database. The item will also be entered into NCIC and if its pawned anywhere, it should produce a "hit", and will show as stolen.
 
Never been in a pawn shop and going by the shows on TV it seems their only responsibility is to ask if the item is owned by the person and how it came into their possession.

From local newspaper accounts I have seen where they can be charged with possession of stolen property. No idea what the outcome was, paper never covers that....
 
SST55 said:
Never been in a pawn shop and going by the shows on TV it seems their only responsibility is to ask if the item is owned by the person and how it came into their possession.

From local newspaper accounts I have seen where they can be charged with possession of stolen property. No idea what the outcome was, paper never covers that....
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They have to know, or "reasonably" know, the items are stolen. "Reasonably" has a lot of definitions when it comes to court. If one guy brings in a box of GPS units, it makes reasonable sense to me the items are stolen. The pawn shop owner just plays dumb. The judge will say, "Maybe the gentleman got many GPS units for his birthday."
 
I've seen this thread for a couple days now and I just noticed it says bridge. I thought it said bride lol
 
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