Thieves make off with church’s copper pipes

TACOMA – Tacoma police say thieves stole the copper pipes from a church.

Members of Grace Missionary Baptist Church were preparing for a men’s breakfast Friday night when they noticed the toilets weren’t flushing. There also was no water from the faucets.

Parishioner Dan Gardner said they could hear water somewhere. But when he looked under the church’s crawl space, he discovered that all the copper pipes had been taken.

Church members scrambled to get water for breakfast and portable toilets.