Russell Kenneth Dubberlin sentenced to 7 months prison after being caught with $6000 worth of copper wire
After the copper wire was stolen, a man who took off his car while fleeing from the police was sentenced to prison last Tuesday.
Russell Kenneth Duberlin was found guilty in obeying the dangerous driving, stopping and dangerous driving, stopping and dangerous driving, stopping, and dexampetamine at the Mandurah Magistrate Criminal Court on 8 July.
The court was told that the Western power was called to repair the power poles on Paganoni Road on November 7 after the copper cable was played.
On November 8, the police were patrolling in the area around Paganoni due to theft and saw that Duberlin had left Bushland and moved away in the Ford area.
When Duberlin saw the police car and accelerated, he was driving to Mandurah Rockingham.
After activating the police lights and sirens, his car reached 100km/s on Crystaluna Drive.
Officers said they saw that Duberlin’s 4WD was in the air directly on a rotating intersection.
Later, Duberlin said he had come to his senses and pulled to the edge of the road.
When the police called the car car, they found a copper cable, a grinder, rowing, pala and 17 dexamphetamine tablets worth $ 6000, which Duberlin claimed to belong to a friend.
Duberlin took part in court through the Hakea prison, which he missed the date of the hearing on June 30th.
Leanne Atkins, the Judge of Magistrates, said that the time in prison was a lesson for Duberlin.
He sentenced him to seven months of imprisonment, which was suspended throughout the year and ordered him to complete the 80 -hour community service.
The stealing of the copper wire was found in headlines last month after the darkness of the streets in Mandurah and Rockingham.
Copper wiring theft, the main roads of millions of dollars per year, street lights dark and power poles leave useless.
Dear metal, scrap metal receivers, advertising they buy pure copper up to 6 dollars per kilogram, mixed copper up to $ 7 and copper wire up to $ 2.
The only metal, which brings a higher price, is gold and platinum going up to Gram $ 50.
The theft of the copper cable is a growing problem, the main roads were confirmed in June, but a spokesman said that “reducing the effects and helping to identify the stolen cables when the main roads were recovered, they were working with the agencies, including the WA police to prosecute their vital public infrastructure”.
“As a result of copper cable theft, there are currently lighting cuts on the road and road network, and the main roads are trying to restore them as soon as possible,” he said.
In the last five or six years, about 800,000 meters of cable was stolen from Perth’s road network.
