Copper Thefts Surge; Small Businesses Bear the Brunt

Copper thefts surge; small businesses bear the brunt

Thieves stealing expensive copper from electrical equipment at businesses continues to plague the area.

Copper wire thieves force south Charlotte nonprofit to find a new location - WCCB Charlotte's CW

CHARLOTTE, NC — A Charlotte woman trying to do some good in her community is dealing with a pretty bad situation. Her nonprofit’s building in South End has been burglarized several times this month. Stripped of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars of copper wiring. “I don’t like coming here somewhere where I want to do so much good and feeling like someone is coming in and in doing so much bad,” said Meredith Loveland. Loveland founded t…