LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined law enforcement and business leaders in Los Angeles Thursday to address the increase in copper wire theft.

In L.A. County, there is more copper theft than the entire state of Texas.

"Copper theft has plunged street blocks into darkness in the Pico-Union and Westlake neighborhoods here in Los Angeles," Bonta said at a news conference. "Cable damage in South L.A. has taken down residents' landline phones. We've had vandalism that cost streetlights to go out in Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights and El Sereno."

AT &T announced at the event that it is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of copper cable theft, or the sale or purchase of stolen copper cable across the sta

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