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Combatting Las Vegas Valley Copper Theft!

Yesterday while showing homes in two subdivisions side by side with high vacancy rates and boarded up homes, it appears there was another recent rash of A/C units stolen for the copper. The units were gutted and the copper was stripped all the way to the home.  We meandered into neighboring vacant backyards to find many units stripped.
Has it come to legislating recycling??
I wish that we could get tougher recycling laws like Mississippi (how sad, I know) where recyclers would have to be registered and perhaps state where the materials came from and the source would need to be verified?
Tough economic times coupled with high recycling payouts due to thirsty third world country demands have forced copper recycling theives to analyze vacancy patterns in distressed neighborhoods. 
This is not a new issue or unique to Las Vegas!!
I realize this issue is not new or unique to the Las Vegas Area.  Copper theft costs community governments, banks, corporate entities, investors and private homeowners a billion dollars a year according to a US Dept of Energy study sited on the (get this) Coalition Against Copper Theft's Website.
Copper thieves will cause tens of thousands of damage to property (tearing ... more

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