Metal thieves suspected of toppling cell tower

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BRIAN JUSTICE, Staff Writer, tullahomanews.com

Although a new state law is making it harder to sell illegally obtained scrap metal, a cell phone tower at Tracy City that was pulled down apparently to get copper indicates how far thieves will go to get what recently has become a "precious" material.

The incident occurred late Friday or early Saturday when guy wires were cut to get a DTC Wireless tower to fall in an apparent effort to get copper wiring, according to Ricky Gibbs, DTC cellular and marketing manager.

The tower is owned by Wireless Properties and is leased by DTC Wireless.

Gibbs summed up his thoughts. "This is a major event that was out of our control, however, we are working as rapidly as possible to restore temporary service to a tower owned by Sequatchie Valley Electric Cooperative.

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1. This is totally out of left field, but...

Brian Justice? :rofl: What a name...