With copper back up to $2 a pound, thieves are busy again: The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune reports a vacant Haverhill house had $4,000 worth of copper pipes ripped out of its walls sometime in the past few days.

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Brookline Police report a Fuller Street resident and a guy installing windows got into "a heated argument that became physical." Both parties to face assault and battery charges.

Also, police report that sometime between Oct. 8 and Oct. 14, somebody made off with a total of 36 feet of copper downspouts from a house at 50 Fernwood Rd.

The Tab reports police have nabbed a man charged with stealing copper downspouts and pipes from St. Anthony's Church on Holton Street in Allston and the McNamara House on Everett Street in Brighton.

Boston Police report nabbing an East Boston couple for participating in the craze that's sweeping the nation: Stealing copper wire.

Police say that shortly after midnight, officers drove up to a construction yard at Geneva Avenue and Maverick Street where copper wire had been stolen in the past:

On arrival, officers observed a female squatting down by a nearby telephone pole who immediately got up, and started walking towards a car all the while holding her cell phone as if talking to someone. Officers, having observed a thick roll of copper wiring next to where the suspect was first observed, stopped her to further investigate. Upon stopping the suspect, officers observed her to be sweating profusely and very nervous. Officers further checked the area and observed a red hacksaw underneath the car that the woman was getting into. It should be noted that the car was parked next to the wire and the pole that the woman was initially standing next to. During further investigation, officers observed another hacksaw in the front seat of the car, a wire tester, and a metal wire cutter.

Some witnesses told police they'd been offered half the wire in exchange for clamming up.

Cambridge Police report arresting two men Saturday morning on charges they were trying to steal five-foot sections of copper from the roof of the Attic, 563 Mass. Ave. in Central Square.

Boston Police report that on recent weekends, somebody's been breaking into the Verizon lot at 173 Boston St. in South Boston and stealing copper wiring.

Also click on the link to read about a teen beaten with a baseball bat by a group of other teens at the Burger King at W. Broadway and D Street Tuesday night.

Copper thefts targeting historic structures led to man's fall from church ladder.

Cambridge Police report arresting two construction workers at the site of the new police station at 125 Sixth St. around 12:30 p.m. last Thursday "after they were observed placing boxes of copper cable into their Jeep."

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Boston Police report arresting a guy allegedly wheeling copper away from a Back Bay alley shortly before 1 a.m. today:

Officers located a witness who told them that he has had to replace his copper downspouts at last three times in the past due to theft. The witness stated that he was awakened by noise in the alley and observed the suspect walking in the alley, heard some noise in the alley and then observed him walking out with a large piece of copper downspout in his hand and placing it in his cart.

Officers surveyed the suspect's shopping cart and observed several copper O-rings used to secure the downspouts in the suspect's shopping cart. Officers conducted a search of the area and located several missing downspouts.

The alleged perp, from Roxbury, was charged with larceny over $250.

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Copper thefts in Newton and Brookline.

The Newton Tab reports on two thefts reported Feb. 21:

"Thousands of dollars" of copper scrap were reported stolen from a Brentwood Avenue property (the missing copper was stored in four 65-gallon drums, each weighing about 200 pounds).

A contractor noticed "several hundred feet of copper flashing" missing from the roof of Mr. Sid's in Newton Centre. The contractor was there to help the store figure out why its roof had started leaking two weeks earlier.

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Copper thefts in Brookline.