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A report from the public, unusual activity for the location, lots of heat that can't be explained by official electrical usage and, probably, not explained by t
by Ensorceled 5y ago
A report from the public, unusual activity for the location, lots of heat that can't be explained by official electrical usage and, probably, not explained by the registered or zoned usage (probably light industrial).
Sounds like more than enough to get a warrant.
- sokoloff 5y agoI personally would hope that wouldn’t be enough (at least in the US). I don’t see anything in the above list of facts that rises to articulable probable cause that a specific crime is being committed. (Maybe you could tighten the analysis a bit to get to PC that electricity or gas are being stolen. I’d be OK with that.)
- Ensorceled 5y agoYou have a ton of heat with no power source to generate that heat ... so either they are stealing the electricity or have an illegal power plant of some kind. That is enough for a warrant for the electricity theft. The other evidence leads to their guess on what they think the electricity is being stolen for, but electricity was definitely being stolen. What more do you want here?
- sokoloff 5y agoIf the heat is beyond what could be produced by a high-efficiency heat pump and other heat sources, I agree there’s likely PC (and I think I said so, or at least tried to).