Crime Stoppers films re-enactment

Times Reporter

 

Crimes Stoppers was is Strathmore on Nov. 9 filming a re-enactment video on AltaLink break-ins. Dean Young, manager of security for AltaLink was on site informing crime stoppers of the danger there is in this crime. 

AltaLink has 270 oil industry sub stations in Alberta and they are all high voltage/electrified and very dangerous. Anyone entering a facility is putting themselves at sever risk of injury or death. 

In the last couple years, criminals have been breaking into these sub stations to steel copper wire. The criminal is in need of a picker truck to lift the 1500lb spools of copper. Copper sells at scrap metal shops in Calgary for $2.90/lb, making it high demand for resale.  

Calgary has since implemented a bylaw, in that you cannot sell scrap metal anonymously, but in surrounding areas this is not the case.  

Dean Young thinks it is very important to put in some stricter bylaws Province wide, in order to decrease the number of stations being compromised and left dangerously open for others to wonder in and kill themselves.  

Evan Dewald (Hope Community Church Pastor) played the starring role in the re-enactment. He and his friends use bolt cutters to break into the sub station and a picker truck to steal the spool of copper.

The re-enactment was aired on Wednesday, but can be viewed on the Calgary Crime stoppers website.