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‘It looked like a bomb went off.’ Portland man accused of ransacking businesses to steal heaps of metal
By Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com
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The 56-year-old owner and manager certainly was industrious and his operation appeared lucrative.
White raked in $178,000 in 18 months, court records show.
He collected aluminum, copper and brass all over Portland. He then sold the piles of metal scrap to bigger recycling companies.
But for White, the name of his enterprise hinted at what he apparently thoughtwas the best way to get the metal: by stealing, police and prosecutors allege.
Police found that White ran his company from little more than a dirt patch beside a Northeast Portland road, where they said he parked his mobile home, a pickup, several trailers and a tangle of twisted stolen metal, spools of wire and burn bins used to strip insulated wire.