Presque Isle police investigate copper thefts
By Kathy McCarty
Staff Writer
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Police are seeking the public’s help as they investigate two recent thefts of copper from Presque Isle business sites.
The first was reported on Saturday, Aug. 9, at around 5 a.m. at the Maysville Street site of the former Crow’s Nest Restaurant and Event Center. While doing a security check, an officer with the Presque Isle Police Department noticed electrical wires had been cut and tanks removed.
Officer Brian McQuarrie, of the PIPD, confirmed that entrance was made through the back of the building and that the perpetrator(s) “removed whatever they could — namely copper.”
Police received a second report of copper being stolen from a Presque Isle business on Friday, Aug. 15. A representative for Trombley Construction on the Parsons Road called around 11:54 a.m. reporting four rolls of commercial-grade copper had been stolen from the business.
The caller indicated she believed the theft occurred sometime the first week of July. The delay in reporting the theft was a result of company officials trying to determine if someone with the business had moved the copper elsewhere. She told police Trombley’s had a similar theft in Caribou and six rolls of similar copper was recovered in that case.
Both cases remain under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the PIPD at 764-4476.
