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By IMPHNK HITCHI!\SON
Rappahannock V-ws Staff ^ ritor
Frank Carmack, safety director for RichardsonWayland Electrical Corporation, reported on Friday that investigators have a suspect for the incidents of vandalism that have plagued work on the Vepco power line being built across Rappahannock County.
“We think we know who did it,” said Carmack, referring to the “malicious damage" that caused the fall of a power line tower three weeks ago. Investigators believe that the same individual may also be responsible for damage done to “dozens of pieces of equipment" belonging to J. Kenyon Perrin Corporation, according to Carmack.
In the latest incident of crippled equipment, vandals broke out a windshield and cut hoses on a proclain, a piece of machinery used to dig foundations for the power line towers. “It will probably take four days to repair it," Carmack reported.
Carmack said that charges involved in the tower fall will be placed soon. He declined to describe the suspect beyond indicating that he was an adult male with no connection to either Richardson-Wayland or to the organized opposition that fought approval of the Vepco line. Carmack discounted allegations made by Ken Welk that the fallen tower was not properly secured to its base with nuts and
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