By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
A local Kansas electrical company found almost $5,000 in spools of copper wires stolen from a company truck last week.
According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, while PAR Electric worked at the substation at 2150 E. North Street, an unknown suspect broke into a storage bin on one of their 2018 Freight bucket truck and stole large spools of wire.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said the spools of wire included eight spools of 12-foot grounding copper wires, three spools of 20-foot cables and an additional three spools of 12-foot copper wires.
PAR Electric left the company truck at the substation overnight from Friday to Saturday. Once the vehicle arrived back at the company lot in Grantville, staff realized the theft.
"They went back and played their video cameras to see if somebody got into their lot to steal the wire," Soldan said. "[The video showed] nobody got into their lot. So it happened when it was there."
Soldan said deputies would continue investigating the theft, but the Sheriff's Office had no suspects. The loss totaled to about $4,560.
Salina Post will update the story as more information becomes available.
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