Copper Being Stolen From Palm Beach County High School's Scoreboards: Report

According to a report by WPTV, three Palm Beach County high schools have reported copper stolen off of their scoreboards

The West Davidson scoreboard displayed the evidence of the Green Dragons' 35-0 win over rival Leddford. / West Davidson Booster Club

According to a WPTV report, theives are scouring Palm Beach County high schools' scoreboards for copper wire.

Copper wire can be found within the actual scoreboards themselves, making for a costly theft that's impacted so far three high schools within Palm Beach County.

Per the report, the three high schools named were Delray Beach Atlantic, Dr. Joaquín García High and Royal Palm Beach.

“Palm Beach County School Police and local law enforcement agencies are actively investigating recent incidents involving property theft on some of our campuses,” said the Palm Beach County School District in a statement per the report. “In addition, the School District of Palm Beach County is taking steps to prevent these types of property thefts in the future. This includes installing additional security measures and increased patrols of our campuses.”

Also added in the report was what the going costs was for two different kinds of copper, with dirty copper going for $4 a pound and clean copper at $5 a pound.

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