Two individuals were arrested for stealing copper cable wire along Manuel L. Quezon Avenue in Barangay Lower Bicutan, Taguig City. Photo from the National Capital Region Police Office – Southern Police District
MANILA, Philippines — Two security guards on patrol arrested two individuals found stealing copper cable wire along Manuel L. Quezon Avenue in Barangay Lower Bicutan, Taguig City early Thursday morning.
The Southern Police District reported that at 2:50 a.m. on November 21, the guards caught the suspects in a manhole as they were pulling copper wire from an underground cable owned by a telecommunications company.
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The guards recovered a total of 67 meters of foam skin-filled underground copper cables of various sizes worth P389,031.29.
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