ELLSWORTH, Maine — Police are seeking the public’s help tracking down thieves who stole a substantial amount of copper piping, wiring and tools from a construction site at the new Ellsworth wastewater treatment plant earlier this week.
Lt. Harold Page with the Ellsworth Police Department said the theft occurred sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning. Page could not provide exact figures on Wednesday but said that “a large amount” of materials were stolen from the site where the city is building a new $21 million wastewater treatment facility on Bayside Road.
The city also posted a request for the public’s help on the department’s Facebook page.
“If they know anything or if they saw something suspicious Monday night, give us a call,” Page said. Anyone with information is asked to call 667-2168. Those who wish to remain anonymous can also call 669-6614.
Here is your biggest tip. Go to the junk metal dealers in the area and see who cashed in a large amount of brand new products. Then somehow prove that the material is yours because “they want to keep it”. They should park a state police cruiser outside all these scrap metal places and cut metal theft by 99%.
They do put undercover police at salvage yards ! LOL He was pretty obvious to me but they do it ! The owner confirmed to me that he was undercover .
here we show how smart the city cops are.. they can not even protect there own property sites.. did they think no one would steal from here because it was city owned.Or maybe it was planed so someone could profit from the city and line there pockets to cover up something they did wrong and illegal elsewhere. city council, ellsworth police, hancock county police, and state police, are the biggest crooks and liars in this county of hancock. and just watch the paper will write exactly what they are told to write in the ellsworth time this week
it’s time to make EVERY metal scrap dealer to retain a copy of EVERY customer’s ID…. the fact that this is allowed to happen ; makes me question; the intent of “public safety” officials to meet their; due diligence .
They have started doing that 4 months ago in most salvage yards. In Belfast there was so much of this stealing going on they stationed a undercover police right at the salvage yard !
The city has the tables turned on it; while I’m not advocating stealing, that’s what the G-men do every time they raise taxes, waste taxpayer money, and basically screw the taxpayer.
Materials locked inside job trailers are still the property of the contractors. The city has not been impacted by these thefts. This is just one more way the taxpayer / business owners are being screwed.
check Mardens?
Can someone tell me why the junk yards that buy this copper aren’t arrested for buying stolen property ?
Could it be rocket science to collect the names and licenses of people who arrive with a truckload of dripping pipes and fresh cut wire ???
Duh !!!
I ask the same question. It seems so obvious that there must be some complicated bureaucratic reason not to implement such a reasonable practice.
This is actually the 3rd time this jobsite has been hit. Each time has been a very large amount of copper wire and pipe stolen. The second time it happened the thieves actually ripped out newly installed copper wire.
this must be lookin real bad for the ellsworth pd….considering ,they saturate that town with cops…..when i go out for grocerys to ells, i very rarely not see cops …youd think the population was close to 40000 people , not 6500
It’s quite frightening to me how ignorant some of the posters here are. Honestly, just because the site is owned by the city means it should be impossible for the police to miss this theft? Some of you make it sound as if this was stolen from the police station! And for anyone upset about high taxes in Ellsworth I think they need look no further than the school system RSU 24. The city budget has been unchanged for 2+ years now. In that same 2 years our tax bill to the RSU has increased by $2 MILLION and the city can do absolutely NOTHING about it.