Suspect arrested after mass internet outages - Yahoo! Voices

Nov. 4—A antheral was arrested Wednesday successful Marysville for allegedly cutting and removing wiring from Comcast that led to extended telephone and net work outages for radical successful some Yuba and Nevada counties, officials said.

At astir 7 a.m. connected Wednesday, the Marysville Police Department responded to East 11th and Ramirez Street successful effect to a study that 2 males were dragging copper wire, the section said. Officers responded to the country and were not capable to find the subjects oregon the wires.

At astir 10 a.m. that aforesaid day, the section was alerted to a imaginable ligament theft from Comcast. Officials said a "large cable" was chopped and stolen from an country adjacent the Yuba County Sheriff's Office.

"This caused telephone lines and the net to beryllium down crossed Yuba County and Nevada County," section officials said successful a statement. "This harm volition outgo Comcast an estimated $100,000 owed to the fig of services that were out."

As constabulary continued to hunt for suspects, that hunt led deputies to an flat analyzable "a fewer blocks away" successful the 1100 artifact of Ramirez Street. Police claimed that a suspect, 26-year-old Javier Chacon, was located and was allegedly successful "possession of a ample magnitude of wiring that had been cut."

"Through the investigation, it was determined that Chacon chopped and stole this ligament this morning," officials claimed. "The motive appears to person been Chacon's mistaken content the wires helium stole were made of copper."

Chacon was arrested and booked into Yuba County Jail for felony vandalism, expansive theft, and felony malicious wounded to connection lines. As of Thursday, helium was listed arsenic inactive being astatine the jailhouse with bail acceptable astatine $50,000.