Workers' video leads to copper wire theft arrest in Tulare County

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral was arrested aft workers who were repairing a pump from a copper ligament theft recorded suspicious cars successful the country Thursday morning, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office said.

Workers were astatine an orchard connected the eastbound broadside of Tulare repairing a pump from a caller copper ligament theft erstwhile they noticed immoderate "suspicious vehicles" connected the property.

The workers past recorded a video of the vehicles, which deputies accidental was traced backmost to a location wrong the city. There, deputies accidental they recovered astir 400 feet of stolen copper ligament insulation, and a 45-year-old was arrested nether suspicion of copper ligament theft.

The individuality of the fishy has not been released.