“Each lamp post is an ATM machine for (thieves),” Kevin de León said.
Evidence seized during the city’s Heavy Metal Task Force operations, including copper and telecommunications wire, is displayed at a press conference on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Heaps of recovered copper wire—weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds—glimmered behind Los Angeles City Council Members Kevin de León and Traci Park on Tuesday, July 30, as they announced a $200,000 additional investment in the city’s Heavy Metal Task Force.
The task force was created in February 2024, and since its inception the joint operation between the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Bureau and the Bureau of Street Lighting has made 82 arrests, sixty of which are on felony charges. About 800 pounds of copper wire with an estimated street value of $5,000, part of the evidence seized during the city’s Heavy Metal Task Force operations, are displayed at a press conference on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Los Angeles.
LAPD officers stand in front of a truck filled with copper wire seized as evidence during the city’s Heavy Metal Task Force operations, at a press conference on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Estela Lopez, the executive director of the downtown industrial business improvement district, spoke about the copper wire theft impacts she has seen. Lopez said the industrial district, which encompasses 64 blocks of downtown L.A., has 702 street lights—but 40 percent of the lights were out earlier this year, after crucial copper wires were stripped from them.
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