Break-in at Fresno Mission construction site could cost $300K

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Mission is facing a large setback aft a break-in implicit the weekend.

The Fresno mission's exigency lodging tract successful cardinal Fresno has been nether operation for astir six months, and implicit the weekend, it deed a large bump successful the road.

"Everywhere you would look, it looked similar the gathering had been ransacked," Fresno Mission CEO Matthew Dildine explained.

Thieves broke into the operation site-- taking $175,000 to $300,000 worthy of copper wiring and pipes on with different indispensable materials.

"The trouble is that portion they whitethorn person chopped this section, it goes up to thing else, and present the full happening has to beryllium replaced," Dildine said portion pointing retired chopped piping.

The 4-story gathering has 73 units to code a captious request successful the city. It's expected to location 200 to 400 radical erstwhile it opens.

The tract already has a waitlist of 105 families seeking exigency shelter.

"It's heartbreaking. It's similar you're trying to assistance the astir susceptible radical successful our community, and there's specified evil that exists successful the satellite that are consenting to forestall that from happening," Dildine said. "It conscionable boggles our mind."

He was hopeful the tract would unfastened successful June, but the caller break-in sets the task backmost by astatine slightest a period oregon two.

Fresno PD is investigating the incidental and says copper theft similar this has go little communal successful caller years.

It was erstwhile a large contented for the metropolis and different communities - but laws targeting radical who steal, sell, oregon bargain stolen copper person aimed to alteration that.

"Nowadays, it's not precise common, truthful it is astatine this constituent believed to beryllium an isolated incident," Fresno Police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega explained.

Police suggest having other information connected operation sites to little the hazard of theft, which Fresno Mission has done.

No suspects person been identified astatine this point.

Anyone with accusation oregon video astir the country is asked to interaction transgression stoppers oregon Fresno police.

If you would similar to assistance the mission, donations are accepted here.

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