Burglars take $15,000 in copper wiring from Huntington Beach rooftop

Burglars made off with $15,000 in copper wiring from a building’s rooftop, at 6:06 a.m. Wednesday in the 8800 block of Burlcrest Drive. Crime scene investigators recovered fingerprint evidence at the scene.

Copper wire theft has been on the rise in the past few years as it provides easy money and the risk of getting caught is much lower than most other thefts.

It does have its dangers as one suspected robber was found electrocuted outside a Huntington Beach business after he apparently tried to steal copper wire from the building’s circuit breaker.

On the evening of Dec. 21, Southern California Edison employees located a circuit breaker that had blown out in the 7400 block of Center Avenue and caused a small power outage, Lt. Russell Reinhart said. A deceased man, later identified as Richard Roll, 52, of Santa Ana, was found next to the circuit breaker.

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