Attempted energy theft kills father: He uses jumper cables to tap a power line.

From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) | Date: September 5, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Amber Hunt

Sep. 5--Cathandra Miller wanted to tell her husband to keep fighting, to keep breathing, to stay alive.

She begged to get in the ambulance as medics rushed him to the hospital. She asked to stand by his side as doctors tried to revive him.

But Leonard Adkins was already dead, electrocuted Monday while trying to steal electricity by using jumper cables to tap into a utility line and direct power to his soon-to-be rental home.

The unemployed couple had planned to move in a rush Labor Day weekend after being evicted from their home on Cecil Street ...

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