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On the surface, the story reads like a routine police blotter item: a man from Whiteville, North Carolina, was arrested and charged in connection with the theft of industrial air conditioning units from a local business. But as with most things in small Southern towns, the news quickly became something more than just a simple crime report. WECT reported that police officers responded to a commercial property after receiving a call about suspicious activity, only to discover that several large HVAC units—heavy, expensive, and full of valuable copper—had been pried loose, dismantled, and hauled away. For the business owner, the…

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