LA residents stuck paying phone bills despite copper wire thieves disrupting service

Los Angeles residents are panicking over copper wire thieves knocking out their phone service and leaving them with the bill.

Over the last few months, Hacienda Heights neighbors have lost most of their landline services after thieves have been tampering with utility poles and other parts of the city infrastructure.

Seventy-nine-year-old Michael Weiner told the Los Angeles Times that he’s still been receiving bills from his phone company, Frontier Communications, despite not being able to get a dial tone for six months. Moreover, he and his neighbors haven’t been receiving updates on repairs.