Scrapyard Owner Alerts State Police to Wire Theft From Job Site

MANSFIELD, CT — An East Hartford man is facing a fifth-degree larceny charge for allegedly stealing wiring from a Mansfield construction site and trying to hawk it at an eastern Connecticut scrapyard, state police said.

Ryan Herbert, 31, was charged on Thursday and is due in court on Nov. 2, according to an arrest warrant.

State police said in the warrant that the theft was traced to a construction site on Meadowbrook Lane. They were alerted to the the theft by the owner of John's Scrapyard in Columbia after Herbert tried to get rid of it, according to an arrest warrant.

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