Police lay charges after finding wires in trunk of car
Posted Jun 23, 2026 12:38:13 PM.
Provincial police stopped a vehicle in the early morning to find a bunch of cable wires in the trunk.
It happened in Tay Valley Township, near an area where several previous cable wire thefts have happened, officials said.
The pair in the vehicle, from Lanark County, are facing possession of stolen property over $5,000, possession of break-in instruments and possession of suspected Methamphetamine.
Police also note that the driver is facing offences under the Highway Traffic Act as well.
Wire thefts surging across Canada
There has been a surge in copper wire thefts across the country as Bell logged 1,275 incidents related to thefts of the metal from its network in 2025.
Rogers said the total number of outage hours related to vandalism in its networks, which includes attempted copper thefts, has increased by 400 per cent since 2022.
It pushed an Ontario MP to push for a crackdown on scrap yards that buy stolen copper wire. She introduced a private member’s bill in the House of Commons that would make it a crime for scrap metal dealers to trade, traffic or have for sale any scrap metal that was known to be stolen, punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and a jail sentence of up to two years.
Rogers is the parent company of CityNews Halifax.
With files from Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press.
