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By Carl Chancellor
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 05:03 p.m. EST, Dec 18, 2007
The individuals who allegedly pilfered landscaping lights from downtown Akron apparently were attempting to cash in their loot today.
An employee at the Barberton Recycling Center on Fifth Street called the Beacon Journal to report that three suspects --two men and a woman -- came to scrap yard this morning trying to sell a half-dozen landscaping lights.
The employee, who declined to give his name, said he knew at once that the lights were hot.
''They were acting really nervous,'' the scrap yard employee said.
About $50,000 worth of high-end landscaping lights were stolen this month from planters in front of the Cascade Plaza on South Main Street.
The lights, which illuminate the plaza, were reported missing Friday. Police reports said a total of 60 lights were taken.
City spokesman Mark Williamson said the downtown lights -- 166 in all -- were installed by the city in 1988. It would cost at least $800 each to replace the lights, which are made of bronze and aluminum.
The scrap yard employee said the lights that the trio was trying to sell weighed about 50 pounds apiece and had been stripped of all their wiring.
The employee estimated the aluminum and bronze in the lights was worth about $1 a pound.
He said the trio took off before he could get the license plate number on the car, which he described as a maroon, late-model Buick.
Police confirmed that Barberton Recycling reported the attempted sale to detectives.
The thefts took place between Dec. 10 and 14. Williamson said there has been a great deal of construction near the plaza, which could have allowed the thefts to go undetected.
The individuals who allegedly pilfered landscaping lights from downtown Akron apparently were attempting to cash in their loot today.
An employee at the Barberton Recycling Center on Fifth Street called the Beacon Journal to report that three suspects --two men and a woman -- came to scrap yard this morning trying to sell a half-dozen landscaping lights.
The employee, who declined to give his name, said he knew at once that the lights were hot.
''They were acting really nervous,'' the scrap yard employee said.
About $50,000 worth of high-end landscaping lights were stolen this month from planters in front of the Cascade Plaza on South Main Street.
The lights, which illuminate the plaza, were reported missing Friday. Police reports said a total of 60 lights were taken.
City spokesman Mark Williamson said the downtown lights -- 166 in all -- were installed by the city in 1988. It would cost at least $800 each to replace the lights, which are made of bronze and aluminum.
The scrap yard employee said the lights that the trio was trying to sell weighed about 50 pounds apiece and had been stripped of all their wiring.
The employee estimated the aluminum and bronze in the lights was worth about $1 a pound.
He said the trio took off before he could get the license plate number on the car, which he described as a maroon, late-model Buick.
Police confirmed that Barberton Recycling reported the attempted sale to detectives.
The thefts took place between Dec. 10 and 14. Williamson said there has been a great deal of construction near the plaza, which could have allowed the thefts to go undetected.
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