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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  FBI Investigating Sabotage of West Coast Power Lines By Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly Thu Oct 30 2003 13:04:58 ET An "individual with an extensive criminal record" is suspected of loosening the bolts on the base of high voltage electrical transmission towers in California and Oregon, authorities said Thursday in a bulletin to West Coast utilities . "Several incidents involving the removal of support bolts at the base of electric high-power transmission towers have been reported on the West Coast, between Oregon and California," said the warning from the National Counterintelligence Executive, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. "Although not confirmed at this time, due to the common modus operandi and Pacific Northwest locations of these events, the sabotage may be the work of a single individual or group," it said. There was "no evidence" of a terrorist connection to the attempted sabotage, the bulletin said. "The FBI recently issued an arrest warrant for an individual with an extensive criminal record who is suspected of being involved in these acts of sabotage." The incidents began on the afternoon of Oct. 20, when a "power plant employee" reported seeing a man " in the act of removing bolts from the leg of a Portland Gas and Electric Co-Generation plant 500kv transmission tower located in Klamath County, Oregon, along the California-Oregon border," the bulletin said. "A large ratchet wrench was used to loosen seven of the eleven bolts, and the tower did not collapse.The subject fled in a pickup truck after being spotted." About two hours later "an individual was spotted removing tower bolts on the Cottonwood Airport 230kv line, north of Sacramento, California." Again the suspect fled in a pickup truck. |
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