Second Person Arrested For Allegedly Stealing MCPU Copper Wire

On 4/21/22, Christopher L. Tice, age 51, of rural Gibson County, was arrested on a Wabash County Warrant for Theft stemming from an MCPD investigation into the theft of wire from Mt. Carmel Public Utility. Tice was arrested by the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office on this and other unrelated charges in which K-9 Officer Daniel Hopper and K-9 Eleven were requested to assist. Tice is the second individual arrested in this investigation with his father Jerry C. Tice being arrested by MCPD in January 2022 for Burglary and Theft. C. Tice is being held in the Gibson County Jail on local charges as well as this warrant.