Return To A Natural State

[C]riminals in search of valuable pieces of scrap metal and copper have moved in – or more like broken in – to the former station at Temple Street and Benton Way. Residents who attended a community meeting last month heard that the station sustained water damage in late November after copper thieves cut into pipes that were still in use.  A few months earlier, burglars broke into the building and made off with electrical boxes,  said burglary Dect. Teresa Hernandez of the Rampart Division, which is now housed in a new building on Sixth Street. “We have been having ongoing problems.”

The burglars who stole the electrical boxes were not caught but two men were arrested by police following the day-time break-in on Nov. 29. Neighbors alerted police to the break-in, and officers encountered the men as the thieves were carrying a large pipe across the property, Hernandez said. The men ran off and climbed over a fence only to be apprehended by officers waiting nearby. A third suspect – who tipped off the two other men with a cell phone call – got away.

Yup, same building (new at the time) used for exteriors on ADAM-12. And hooray for technology, even if he didn't call his associates fast enough.