Los Angeles Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects in Mission Hills and the recovery of $50,000 worth of copper wire.

The arrests comes the very same day the Los Angeles City Council gave its final approval to a proposed ordinance that would create a Metal and Wire Theft Reward program to fight rampant copper wire theft in the city.

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The two suspects were identified as 53-year-old Concepcion Vasquez and 51-year-old Jose Garcia Avila. Both men were booked into the LAPD's Van Nuys Jail on suspicion of grand theft.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Mission Station were alerted around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday to a ``grand theft in progress'' in the 15000 block of Germain Street, near San Jose El

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