HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A northwest Harris County restaurant was left without power for days after a thief stole copper-filled cables from a nearby utility pole. Juanita’s Mexican Kitchen co-owner ...

Thieves are increasingly targeting the copper wires that keep America’s power grids and phone networks running.

A camera caught this image of a person stealing wire from a Kinetic line in Perry County in October. Such thefts have gone up in Kentucky by thieves seeking copper to sell. Photo courtesy of Kinetic.

A person holds a handful of recycled copper reclaimed from scrap wire at C&D Scrap Metal in Houston. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer It doesn’t take a lot of guesswork for Daniel Jackson to figure ...

More and more thieves are stealing copper from cables in North Texas, and AT&T says the growing problem is costing millions to fix and putting people’s homes and businesses at risk. On Monday, NBC 5 ...

HOUSTON – Copper wire thieves were caught in the act in Houston’s Northside neighborhood early Sunday morning before many AT&T customers lost internet service. There’s been an alarming rise of these ...

As copper wire theft continues to surge across Los Angeles County, detectives say shutting down the black market is critical. 7 On Your Side is digging into where that stolen copper actually goes and ...

A crew of copper thieves was caught in the act early Tuesday morning as they tried to take an estimated $50,000 worth of wire in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, police said. A caller ...