Three people were arrested after police observed them carrying out items in Elk River in the dead of night.
The incident began unfolding at 12:51 a.m. Jan. 25, when police were called to a suspicious vehicle in the general area of Martin Marietta Materials, 12450 Ranch Road. When officers arrived, they found an unoccupied vehicle and signs of copper wire theft inside the vehicle, according to the police report.
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