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Updated · WMBF · Sep 15

Megan Powell Charged in $50,000 Frontier Cable Theft as 2nd Arrest Hits Florence County Case

Updated

Updated · WMBF · Sep 15

Megan Powell Charged in $50,000 Frontier Cable Theft as 2nd Arrest Hits Florence County Case

1 articles · Updated · WMBF · Sep 15

Florence County deputies on Monday charged Megan Powell, 31, with 18 counts tied to the theft of about $50,000 in Frontier Internet cable near Johnsonville.
July 8 is when investigators say Powell cut copper wire, disrupted Frontier service for customers, and later sold the material to a metal recycler in Hemingway.
The charges include obtaining nonferrous metals by disrupting critical infrastructure, five counts each of possessing and selling stolen nonferrous metals, and six property-damage counts.
Powell is being held at the Florence County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing; co-defendant Shawn Stone, 43, was charged July 16 and remains jailed in the same case.

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With 17 counts filed, could this $50,000 cable theft reveal a much larger underground metal smuggling ring?

How did a local recycler buy stolen copper despite strict state laws designed to stop these exact infrastructure attacks?

If critical infrastructure is this vulnerable to a simple wire cut, what is stopping the next massive internet blackout?

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