Calgary police have charged two individuals for stealing telecommunication wire that left greater than 2,000 Calgarians with out web or telephone service final month.
Investigators say on Friday, Dec. 8, three individuals went into a number of manholes on the 2000 block of Glenmore Path SE and stole “essential infrastructure wire.”
This left 2,056 residents of the realm with out entry to telephone or web service.
Property damages from the incident totalled round $276,000, police say.
On Tuesday, Jan. 2, officers searched a property on 37 Avenue SW and located proof of theft and the reselling of copper wire.
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Jared John Hiebert has been charged with one depend of theft over $5,000, one depend of trafficking stolen property and two counts of failure to adjust to an enterprise.
The 50-year-old is about to seem in court docket on Tuesday.
Forty-year-old Tamara Lynn Hurlburt has been charged with one depend of theft over $5,000 and two counts of failure to adjust to an enterprise.
She is about to seem in court docket in Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Police are nonetheless searching for one particular person in connection to the left.
Anybody with details about this incident is requested to contact police at 403-266-1234 or tip anonymously by way of CrimeStoppers.
