Dumb question: Who are they selling it to? If the cops were to roust a few scrap dealers as fences it would put a damper on the secondary market, wouldn’t it? I mean when a guy in a low rider shows up with a trunk full of high voltage cable, doesn’t someone think something is wrong?
Shady scrap metal dealers, I guess. Maybe there’s some reason that they’re hard to catch in the act. One dealer in Contra Costa called the cops when someone brought in the memorial plaque off of the Vietnam memorial, if I remember correctly.
I think you're making some false assumptions about the identity of the persons knocking down these power poles..esse.