Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!
Some recent check-ins at an EV charging station in Roswell, New Mexico, reveal a big problem: copper theft. This is something I’ve covered before, but it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this at a DC fast charging (Level 3) station.
Sadly, this is a story happening all over the United States. People caught in the cycle of addiction will do anything to come up with a few bucks to trade for some more pills. In my neighborhood elsewhere in New Mexico, a gang of armed thieves took advantage of an elderly woman with dementia and then set up shop stealing anything they could from the neighborhood. Every day or two, someone with a trailer would come by and collect up the stolen goods, and then someone else would show up a few minutes later with the pills.
Worse, law enforcement in…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.