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200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."


"There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."

The radio station manager has told outlets that he's hopeful that community tips and surveillance footage from the poultry plant near the tower's former location may eventually help police find the tower-taker(s). Federal law says one who "willfully or maliciously injures or destroys any of the works, property, or material of any radio, telegraph, telephone or cable, line, station, or system, or other means of communication, operated or controlled by the United States" can face up to 10 years of imprisonment and fines. It was eventually revealed that two NSCDC officials "were approached by a scrap metal dealer to provide him security cover to transport the items," per Media Trust-owned Daily Trust.

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