Posted on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008

The greatest theft

By Ruth Sheehan

Susie Deter, director of a clubhouse for the mentally ill in Durham, has learned a lot about thievery over the last several months.

Late one night over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, robbers tore into the heating and air conditioning units at Threshold, looking for copper wire.

They left the heating unit limping but functional. The air conditioning unit will need to be overhauled or replaced.