A Columbus concrete-mixing business reported Saturday that it had been raided by copper burglars, according to police.
The burglars broke a padlock at the 201 Redi-Mix Road building of Redi Mix, near the area where Main Street crosses over Highway 82, sometime over the past two weeks, said Columbus Police Public Information Officer Terrie Songer.
The owner told police he hadn”t been to the building during that time period.
The burglars pulled copper wires out of an electric box, took rolls of copper wire and other copper items, Songer said. They also took assorted power tools.
The burglary is one of several recent copper burglaries in the Columbus area.
On July 31, officers arrested three people — Jeremy Stephen Yarbrough, 20, of 10 Weathers Drive; Corey Michael Thompson, 23, of 3597 Nashville Ferry Road; and Katie Hope Harris, 24, of 594 Woodridge Place — for the burglary of Doughty Electric on Airline Road.
Police also arrested Donnie Yulicous Harris, 21, of 405 10th St. N. for the copper burglary of mechanical contractor Air Control Engineering, located at 1119 Pridmore Drive.
The business, which reported more than $100,000 in goods stolen, was burglarized the weekends of June 11, July 16 and 23, and Tuesday, July 19.
Harris, whose name was released after police received a Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers tip, turned himself in at the Lowndes County jail Monday afternoon.
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