Thieves somehow steal 6 miles of copper wire from Utah highway

ALT LAKE CITY — The biggest copper heist in Utah memory has stripped more than six miles of wire from a stretch of Salt Lake City highway.

The Utah Department of Transportation first noticed the theft today, officials said, but they don’t know when exactly thieves snatched up the wire. The thieves either disguised themselves as a construction crew or worked in the middle of the night on multiple occasions to yank wire from the median of Interstate 15, said roadway lighting engineer Richard Hibbard.