Police catch woman cutting copper phone lines on North Wolf Creek

Kassandra Hamilton is in jail after deputies say they caught her stealing copper phone line on North Wolf Creek Road.

BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

PILGRIM — A late-evening copper theft in Pilgrim ended in handcuffs Tuesday after deputies came upon a mud-stuck truck, cut utility lines and piles of stripped wire in a field.

Martin County Sheriff John Kirk and his deputies responded to North Wolf Creek Road after a trespassing complaint. When they arrived, they found Kassandra Hamilton, 33, of Louisa, struggling to rock a truck free from the muck.

A truck loaded with a ladder and other equipment sits stuck in the mud on North Wolf Creek Road, where deputies say a woman cut communication lines during an attempted copper theft in Pilgrim.

What caught their eye, though, were the poles towering overhead. The communication lines had been slashed and their remnants lay scattered in the grass.

Cut communication lines hang from telephone poles on North Wolf Creek Road, damaging critical infrastructure.

In a nearby field, deputies spotted heaps of insulation and roughly 45 feet of copper cable, its colorful coating still clinging like a trail of evidence.

Stripped communication lines lie in a field on North Wolf Creek Road after a copper theft attempt Tuesday evening in Pilgrim.

In the back of the truck, deputies spotted a ladder and other equipment believed to have been used to cut the lines.

Authorities arrested Hamilton on the spot.

She was booked into the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center at 8:08 p.m.

Hamilton is facing charges of criminal mischief in the first degree (tampering with key infrastructure assets), a felony, and trespass of key infrastructure assets, a first offense misdemeanor.

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