Danville police seeing metal thefts rise with scrap prices

WESTVILLE – When vandals stuck screwdrivers in the coils of the air-conditioning unit outside the Westville Fire Department building, firefighters simply locked it up.

A 6-foot-high fence with a padlocked gate surrounds the unit now.

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