Copper cable thieves collared
Four people were arrested after police discovered copper cables weighing nearly 400 kilograms in their car.The suspects three men and one woman from Poland were put in custody in Salzburg after a random traffic check in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria yesterday (Thurs).The group claimed to have bought the cables in Italy. Police decided to examine the 380-kilo spool after they failed to show a receipt confirming the acquisition. Officers then found out that the cables were reported as stolen from a storage site in Högmoos in the province of Salzburg.The cables are worth around 2,700 Euros, according to the police.The incident comes on the back of a series of metal and copper thefts across Austria.It was reported only last month that more than 20 kilometres (km) of aluminium cables were stolen from a transformer station near Eisenstadt in Burgenland.