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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Brandon Balzer, Matthew Cain, Robert Felton and Matthew Wiggins are all now in custody after they got caught attempting to steal copper piping from the old Pittsburgh VA hospital. According to police, when they found these four suspects, they were trying to steal more than 2,000 pounds of copper piping from the hospital located off of Highland Drive in Pittsburgh. It is believed that the reason that the four suspects tried to steal the copper that police estimate is around $7,000 is to recharge the power tools they were using to strip the copper in the old Pittsburgh VA hospital. Those four men are in the Allegheny County Jail and they now have several charges against them which range from burglary to vandalism.