Loan agent arrested in burglary
Placentia man arrested in Irvine is also a suspect in another copper heist, police say.
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register
IRVINE – A Placentia loan officer was arrested Wednesday after police say they caught him in the middle of stealing copper from a vacant Irvine building.
Dwayne Anthony Kelly, 45, is also suspected of stealing more than $20,000 of copper wire from a Muirlands Street building in February, Irvine police Lt. Rick Handfield said. Surveillance cameras captured a man resembling Kelly breaking into the empty building and stealing 2800 feet of copper wire in February.
Officers were called to a burglary in progress in the 2800 block of Kelvin about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday and caught Kelly with burglary tools, Handfield said.
He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and possession of burglary tools.
Kelly is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at the Harbor Justice Center. He is being held at the Orange County jail without bail.
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haha. stealing copper wire is such a third-world sort of crime. It’s what the russians took to after shock therapy immiserated the country.
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Held without bail for GT of Copper Wire? They are really cracking down on crime in the OC!
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It’s far more serious than, say, stealing cable! And only evil murderers do that. I think the real crime here is that he’s in the loan processing industry. Blech!
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Apparently copper prices are at an all time high and this is now a serious problem. Kind of like the Viet gangs going all Reservoir Dogs on tech companies in the 90s for their memory chips.
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