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Copper thief causes gas leak in Council Bluffs

September 29, 2011 By Matt Kelley

A natural gas leak in western Iowa is blamed on a copper thief. Police evacuated a neighborhood on the west side of Council Bluffs, a few blocks east of Interstate 29, just before dawn as officials searched for the source of a gas leak.

It was determined the leak was coming from a vacant home where someone had been trying to steal copper pipe. Police arrested a teenage suspect a short time later and recovered the stolen copper.

Residents were allowed to return to their homes around 6:30 a.m. About a dozen homes were evacuated.

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