In its nearly 80 years of business, things have run smoothly, Lucchetti said.
But that recently changed.
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That's nothing new. I lived in Stanislaus County just to the south of Stockton and wire theft there was so bad that in new construction, they were installing all the HVAC units on top of the houses instead of beside them because the tweekers were gutting the units before the houses could be sold.
If you had a pre-existing unit on the ground in some parts of the county, it was caged.
