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TIPTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WMC) - Authorities arrested four people in connection with multiple copper wire thefts and vandalism in Tipton County and surrounding areas.

According to the Tipton County Sheriff's Office, between October 3 and October 18, deputies responded to multiple reports of copper wire thefts and extensive damage involving facilities operated by Southwest Electric and Ritter Communications.

The incidents involved cutting, removing, and stealing copper wiring and communications lines at multiple locations, including Ritter Communications facilities on Portersville Road, Wortham Road, and Atoka-Idaville Road; a Southwest Electric facility on Glen Springs Road; and the Drummonds area.

The thefts and resulting destruction have caused an estimated $100,000+ in damages and repair costs and disrupted essential communications services.

Bryson Riley Meadows, 32, Scotty Dewayne Anderson, 51, Jasmine Towles, 42, Colton Chase Cannon, 24, (Tipton County Sheriff's Office)

Investigators obtained and executed a search warrant at a home in the 1000 block of Fire Tower Road in Somerville, Tennessee. During the search, investigators recovered a large quantity of communications wire believed to have been stolen during the incidents.

Colton Chase Cannon, 24, of Somerville, Tennessee, Bryson Riley Meadows, 32, of Braden, Tennessee, and Jasmine Towles, 42, of Somerville, Tennessee, were charged with theft of property ($10,000-$60,000) and critical infrastructure vandalism.

Scotty Dewayne Anderson, 51, of Somerville, Tennessee, was charged with possession of stolen property (Over $1,000).

Bond is $150,000 for Cannon and $75,000 for Meadows and Towles. Anderson's bond is pending.

All four are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.

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