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PINE BLUFF, Ark. – AT&T is offering a $5,000 reward in a copper theft investigation.
The stolen copper is costing the company and its customers in Jefferson County, who have struggled with internet issues over the last year, said they are completely fed up.
"I’m frustrated, one hundred percent frustrated, one hundred and two percent frustrated," Jesse Turner, one of many residents without internet, said.
As you drive down Ohio Street in Pine Bluff, you can see where wires have been ripped down from telephone poles.
"They take a rope, some kind of a rope, throw it over the wire up top, catch it and pull it down this is what I am told by the AT&T technician," Turner said.
Turner said this has been happening off and on over the past year.
"They will fix it and then two months or less, they will come back and swipe it again," Turner stated.
Leaving a red light on the internet, and a disconnected phone line.
"It kills my phone. I miss doctors’ appointments, people calling me trying to get me, but they can't get me because the i...
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