iFIBER ONE News - Segment 5 (12/10/12)
Our Northwest news offers some advice tonight - If you order Christmas gifts online or send packages to family, be careful of where you send them. Packages left on doorsteps are easy prey for thieves. In Seattle four people were arrested on suspicion they were driving around stealing packages from front porches. Police credit sharp-eyed neighbors for helping catch the thieves. The Seattle Times reports that a woman at one house reported seeing a man run off with a UPS package late Friday morning and get into a white Toyota van. At mid-afternoon, a woman was seen jumping out of the same van at a different residence. An officer spotted the van, pulled it over and found three men, one woman and several packages. The packages have been returned. The four people were booked into the King County Jail for investigation in the robberies and for outstanding warrants. You could be paying more in the future for new brake pads for your car. Manufacturers of brake pads are gearing up to meet a first-in-the-nation Washington state law requiring they phase out the use of copper and other heavy metals. In 2010 the state banned the use of copper in brake pads, as a way to prevent the metal from polluting waters and harming fish. When brakes wear down, they release copper shavings onto roads and are eventually washed into rivers. The first phase of the law takes effect on Jan. 1, when manufacturers of brakes will be required to report the concentrations of heavy metals -- such as copper ...From:IfibercommunicationsViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:11More inNews Politics

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