CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) 鈥 Law enforcement officials in North Carolina are applying for search warrants related to the weekend shooting of electric substations that caused widespread power outages in Moore County, authorities confirmed Thursday.
The FBI is seeking cell phone records that could indicate who was near the substations Saturday night, said an agency spokeswoman Shelley Lynch. Such search warrant applications 鈥渁re a normal step in a law enforcement investigation," she added.
Richard Maness, chief deputy of the Moore County Sheriff鈥檚 Office, that detectives have requested court approval for several warrants. He declined to provide specifics or say whether they've been approved.
"But obviously with any criminal investigation like this that鈥檚 an invaluable tool for law enforcement,鈥 he told the newspaper.
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as well as schools and a hospital. . The company said customers gradually got power back as it finished testing and restoration.
Police have not released a motive or said what kind of gun was used in the attack. But Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields 鈥渒new exactly what they were doing to ... cause the outage that they did.鈥
The state, county and Duke Energy are offering combined rewards of up to $75,000 total for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the attack.
鈥淎n attack on our critical infrastructure will not be tolerated,鈥 North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday.
