(CENTRALIA, WA) -- The
Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of a large
amount of copper wire from street lights along Rush Road. Stacy Brown
with the Sheriff’s Office says on Wednesday
deputies contacted the Lewis County Public Works Department in regards
to the theft that happened in the 1600 block of Rush Road sometime
between August 22 and August 25. According to Brown, county officials
say up to a mile of insulated and non-insulated copper wire was taken.
At this time there is no dollar estimate of the loss. The investigation
is ongoing.
