Our Books Are Open

A Plymouth County, Iowa Sheriff's deputy caught a thief stealing copper from a Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) site south of Hinton on Highway 75. It's a story that could have happened anywhere in America.

Of note is a comment by a reader identified as Don Roberts: "Not just a North West Iowa problem, a world wide problem!!! I had friends in New Zealand watch what they thought were Power Board workmen strip power-lines from their street on a Saturday afternoon only to find out, too late it was clever thieves. friends in South Africa who have given up on land lines for phones as the network is always down due to wire thefts and here in Perth, Western Australia, the railways lost most of their communication system when around 500 miles of copper wire was stolen over a holiday weekend.

So who buys it? Scrap Metal Merchants. Time for them to open their books and show the authorities who they are buying from. That should cancel the demand!! Or is that too much Big Brother power??"

Here at Salvage America we are proud of the fact that we have been reporting our buys for as long as we have been buying scrap metal. All sellers of scrap metal must provide a state or Federal issued picture ID which we then scan into our computers and pass along to area police departments along with details from each tranaction.

Yes, it's the law but at Salvage America we are happy to do it. We work with local police in any way we can and encourage everyone to report all crimes to your local police.