Thieves steal copper cable from light rail track
May 14, 2012, 5:44 AM | Updated: 9:17 am
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Sound Transit officials say someone has stolen about
70,000 pounds of valuable copper cable from a tunnel
inside the elevated light rail track between Sea-Tac
Airport and Seattle.
“Someone or some group have one way or another accessed
the inside of the elevated track way light rail system and
taken a little over four miles of copper wire from
inside,” said Bruce Gray with Sound Transit. “Whoever did
this had some sophisticated knowledge of how to get in
there, and what was in there.”
Ron Griffin, head of Sound Transit police, puts a street
value of about $250,000 on the 22,000 feet of cable and
says it was likely cut up and carried out chunk by chunk.
Gray said the lack of cable poses no danger to trains or
passengers. He says it protects the structure from any
stray currents.
KING 5 reports that the agency thinks the
copper has been sold to a metal dealer by now. Officials
are asking the public to contact the King County Sheriff’s
Office with any information about who might be
responsible.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
