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Metal theft threatens food bank’s supply
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 | No comments posted.
EUGENE — Workers at Oregon’s second-largest food bank believe they saved more than 100,000 pounds of perishables threatened by the theft of less than $100 worth of copper tubing.
The tube fed coolant to a freezer and refrigerator in west Eugene that held the food intended for hunger relief.
It is the latest of a long string of metal thefts in the Willamette Valley and elsewhere in the Northwest, laid to rising metals prices and drug addicts’ craving for quick cash. One estimate is that Willamette Valley utilities have been hit for more than $500,000 in the last two years.
After they walked into warmer-than-expected coolers Monday morning, Manager Ron Detwiler and other workers at FOOD for Lane County scrambled to transfer food and to get the freezer repaired.
Detwiler said repair costs will total about $8,000. The loss of refrigerant was estimated at $4,000.
The tube fed coolant to a freezer and refrigerator in west Eugene that held the food intended for hunger relief.
It is the latest of a long string of metal thefts in the Willamette Valley and elsewhere in the Northwest, laid to rising metals prices and drug addicts’ craving for quick cash. One estimate is that Willamette Valley utilities have been hit for more than $500,000 in the last two years.
After they walked into warmer-than-expected coolers Monday morning, Manager Ron Detwiler and other workers at FOOD for Lane County scrambled to transfer food and to get the freezer repaired.
Detwiler said repair costs will total about $8,000. The loss of refrigerant was estimated at $4,000.
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