Brothers charged with stealing Pennsylvania bridge for scrap.
There is no question that the current price of scrap has encouraged more than its fair share of opportunistic criminals. Here in the UK, tabloid newspapers have been filled with tales of roads being rendered impassable by the overnight theft of manhole covers, and trains delayed because of the the theft of overhead cables.
But, to the best of our knowledge, none of these crooks has been quite so ambitious as a pair of brothers in Pennsyvlani who are charged with stealing an entire bridge and hawking it for a $5,000 scrap payout.
Benjamin Arthur Jones, 24, and Alexander Williams Jones, 25, both of New Castle, Pa., are accused of breaking up the 50-foot steel bridge with a blowtorch in September and selling 15 1/2 tons of its scrap mental.
The older brother told a recycling company he had permission to dismantle and sell the privately-owned bridge but the company became suspicious and alerted the cops, authorities said.
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