Bloomingdale Communications Offers $10,000 Reward After 3 Fiber Cable Attacks in Van Buren County
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Updated · WWMT-TV · Aug 11
Bloomingdale Communications Offers $10,000 Reward After 3 Fiber Cable Attacks in Van Buren County
3 articles · Updated · WWMT-TV · Aug 11
Summary
$10,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest after vandals cut Bloomingdale Communications fiber lines around Paw Paw and Gobles, knocking out phone and internet service for hundreds of customers.
Three service boxes have been destroyed since Aug. 5, causing about $40,000 in damage, and investigators say the cuts have been happening in the early morning between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Van Buren County detectives are pursuing several leads and increasing patrols while examining possible links to former employees, contractors or unhappy customers.
Bloomingdale serves parts of Van Buren, Allegan and Kalamazoo counties, and its CEO said the attacks threaten critical connections used by schools, libraries and healthcare providers.