1. Does the metal recycler take the material anyway?
2. If not, has this resulted in any arrests?
3. Has this made you want to increase security of you recyclable material?
The scrap dealer takes fingerprints and mails the check. He does take the material but usually doesn’t end up paying.
Arrests are rare but have happened. It is mostly the tweakers who are arrested. One group of idiots stole a bronze statue from downtown and tried to sell it as scrap. They were all arrested.
Security would be a wash. The cost would not be worth the little bit that dissapears frm time to time.