Frontenac OPP are looking into the theft of copper wire reported on Jan. 15.
Police say that one or more people used equipment to scale a telephone pole and cut the copper wiring at a location on Firehall Road in South Frontenac Township, south of Highway 7.
The telecommunication company pinpointed a time of 3:49 a.m. when the system stopped functioning.
The wire between two telephone poles was completely removed.
The estimated cost of the wire from this theft is $5,000.
OPP say several area residents were without telephone services for some of that day.
