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Detectives are trying to locate the owner of a large amount of copper and aluminum wire seized from a longtime felon last week.
Metal has been increasingly targeted by drug-addicted thieves in the last few years because it can be sold for cash at scrap yards.
So when police found William L. Moore, 44, with gloves, flashlights, saw tools and more than 70 feet of aluminum and copper wire after a traffic stop at Argonne Road and Sinto Avenue on May 4, they figured he was up to something criminal.
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Reporter Meghann Cuniff writes about public safety news from the Inland Northwest and beyond.
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lewis8457 on May 14 at 7:41 a.m.
He was stopped at a traffic stop and the items were found in his truck? If you are an ex convict does that mean the police can search your vehicle with out a warrant? No one has claimed the wire what is to say he got an honest job and he was on the way to install the wire somewhere?
What ever happened to being innocent before being proved guilty?
Oh I forgot we are in Spokane, he is damn lucky the cops didn’t just kill him on the spot.