Nghe An: Arrested for stealing 235m of telecommunication cable

(Baonghean.vn)- On the afternoon of May 9, Quynh Luu District Police said that the unit is continuing to investigate and expand the case of telecommunication cable theft in the area.

Previously, receiving information from the Quynh Luu Telecommunications Center that in hamlet 5, Quynh Lam commune, thieves had cut and stolen 235 meters of 50-pair communication cable, Quynh Luu police coordinated with the police of Quynh Lam and Ngoc Son communes to investigate the case.

The number of exhibits seized in the telecommunications cable theft case

Through information, evidence and information provided by local people, at around 11:30 a.m. on April 16, the district police force raided the house of Dang Quang Thanh (born in 1979, residing in Hamlet 1, Ngoc Son Commune) and caught him red-handed burning a communication cable right at home.

Evidence collected at the scene included 9.8 kg of copper cores and 101 meters of telecommunication cable; total property damage was about 13 million VND.

Telecommunication cable was burned by thieves to get copper core.

At the police station, Dang Quang Thanh confessed: during the cable theft, he contacted Tran Van Hoang (born in 1995, from the same hamlet) to bring pliers, ladders, and a trailer to hamlet 5, Quynh Lam commune to commit the theft.

It is known that Thanh was previously hired by Quynh Luu Telecommunication Center to install and dismantle unused telecommunication cables and return them to the center. However, he came up with a plan to steal and secretly invited his accomplices to join him in stealing the information cables.

The case is currently under investigation and expansion.

Viet Hung