Thieves have been ripping the copper wiring out from buildings every day for days, even using a forklift once to rip a fence off its hinges.

A man is in critical condition after he was shocked while trying to steal copper wire from a PECO transformer box, police say.

A man has suffered burns all over his body after police said he was shocked by a transformer box while trying to steal copper wire in Philadelphia's Bustleton neighborhood.

According to the source, nearly 20,000 litres of oil placed inside a chamber to be used as a coolant in the transformer had been drained from it.

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Deputies in McDowell County, North Carolina, arrested a man and woman after receiving a call about two people stealing copper wire and transformers from the area.

Bishop said the crime seems to rise in response to the price of copper. Thieves typically burn the coating off the wire and sell it at a scrap metal business.

RCMP in Saskatchewan say copper thieves struck six times at rural worksites and electrical transformers over the last several months.

Two Georgia men stealing copper wire at an electrical power station died by electrocution and the subsequent force of a transformer explosion, the Gainesville police department told CBS News ...

Copper wire theft is on the rise in Austin, with more than 20 major thefts from customer-owned energy equipment reported this year alone.