Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Copper Thieves Caught

 The Byram Police Department issued the following statement. 

Over the past month, Byram Police received reports from AT&T in reference to copper lines being cut from different AT&T sites leaving customers without service in the Byram community. Estimated value of the stolen copper was near $16,000.00. Upon further investigation, detectives recovered an estimated value of $10,000.00 in stolen copper wiring and arrested five suspects. The recovered stolen copper was returned to AT&T. Suspects arrested and their charges are as follows:

1. Sean Paul Bender (40 years old from Byram, MS) ~ arrested for 3 Counts of Grand Larceny



2. David Scott Evans (57 years old from Greenville, MS) ~ arrested for 3 Counts of Grand
Larceny



3. Michael Levi Esposito (47 years old from Byram, MS) ~ arrested for 3 Counts of Grand Larceny



4. Cheryl Leigh Welch (43 years old from Byram, MS) ~ arrested for 3 Counts of Grand Larceny and Receiving Stolen Property



5. Nicholas Adam Heidel (43 years old from Byram, MS) ~ arrested for 3 Counts of Grand Larceny, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of Firearm by a Convicted Felon



32 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of rednecks !

If that chick mis 43 then shes had a real hard life

Anonymous said...



A handful of Darwin award winners-

Anonymous said...

Shocking

Anonymous said...

Good lord I’m a 42 year old millennial and I thought I was aging poorly.
These people look like the faces of meth!

Anonymous said...

Sad.

Anonymous said...

The Faces of Meth

Anonymous said...

Look at the ages compared to their pictures. Kids, this is why you don't do drugs, especially meth. So sad.

Anonymous said...

stinking methheads.

god must love em cause he make so many of them

Anonymous said...

Withdrawal will be a real bitch.

I hope, on follow-up, investigators will find out where they fence the copper, since by law, a scrap dealer cannot buy it without proper credentialing.

Based on appearance, and a due amount of profiling, I'd be amazed if the PoPo was not already keeping an eye on these citizens.

Floyd Lawson said...

With those barber capes on, hopefully they are all about to get much needed haircuts and makeovers.

Anonymous said...

Sad. This is what no education & drug use looks like.
Show this to your kids to empower them to stay in school & get good grades.

Anonymous said...

Good job to the Byram Police.

If Byram can catch copper thieves, why can't the thieves be caught on I55 so we can actually have some light back on the interstate?

Someone had a great question---where are they selling the copper? Perhaps work backwards from receiver of stolen goods to the ones hitting the I55 lights.

Anonymous said...

Guess we know why the methhead scrappers steal copper wire rather than horses.

Anonymous said...

An act of terrorism? .....Electric Utility theft sabotage?...

Crystalmethodists said...

That takes a lot of brass.

Anonymous said...

Yeah & wonder if it was taken to Greenville by Evan’s ? Bad choices for all as that’s probably what caused our outage last week.

Anonymous said...

This is why we can't have a nice state.

Anonymous said...

If they are going to steal copper, they should have thought BIGGER:

200 Ft Radio Tower Stolen in Alabama...
https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/us/alabama-radio-tower-stolen.html

Anonymous said...

AT&T will put a gps tracker in the wires insulation. They will track the wire to a location, then report it to the Police. Not much Police work, except making the arrest and taking the credit.

Anonymous said...

Interesting how they attach a "value" to the stolen copper. Anyone who has had in-place copper stolen from one of their properties knows that copper metal "value" can be off by a whole decimal place.

I had $20,000 "worth" of copper stolen that cost about $110,000 to repurchase and install! Folks like these assholes above can actually make a property unsellable, because the cost to repurchase / install the copper can exceed the property's value! All it takes is a group of deadbeats like this and a few hours worth of work.

MAN, I hate thieves!!!

Anonymous said...

I am with the poster above. I am 42 and thought I looked a tad haggard for my age

but this post put a little pep in my step

Anonymous said...

Don't do meth kids.

Anonymous said...

Hats off to Chief Errington and his team. Chief Errington was my training officer in 2001 and was leader then. I could not be prouder of his and his leadership abilities and the entire team at Byram PD. Keep up the good work!

Anonymous said...

Why waste our time and money on these rednecks, arrest the b*stards buying this obviously stolen property. They probably can afford to skate, but at least it will cost them a lot of money for their “respectable” attorney fees.

Anonymous said...

If anyone needs a Queer Eye makeover, it's these guys!

Anonymous said...

Interesting note. I ran into an AT&T man on my farm in south Hinds Co last year. Thieves had stolen an entire stretch of wire and stripped it. He says it happens every week around Hinds Co. I asked him if law enforcement was any help. He says AT&T does not even report most of the thefts anymore. They have a protocol to document the theft. They then submit the costs to repair to the federal government. Feds reimburse them millions every year just in this area. Think about how much that adds up over the entire country. AT&T really has very little incentive to do anything about the thievery. Taxpayers foot the bill.

Anonymous said...

@8:04

Same reason they only go after prostitutes and John’s but never the pimps. If anyone knows the answer please indulge.

Anonymous said...

Waiting for one of these geniuses to climb a fence and steal some wire from an Entergy Sub-Station.

Maggie Wade would leave the studio to cover THAT one.

Ready Kilowatt said...

@ March 7, 2024 at 8:09 AM

It happens all the time: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shane-joseph-long-christopher-blair-wood-died-electrocution-breaking-into-power-substation-gainesville-georgia/

The problem is that, even if these future Darwin award winners are successful, they leave expensive repairs in their wake that the rate payers have to cover.

Anonymous said...

10:46 - I grew up with him. It's Reddy.

Anonymous said...

Offer 'em a deal to rat on the buyer.

What a concept!

Anonymous said...

Thank you, 5:22AM! That explains a great deal.


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