Since Jan. 3, when someone stole copper from local Bell cables, Allan Speight has had to drive eight kilometres to a gas station down the road to make phone calls.
3 people accused of stealing copper and damaging Bell network cables near Welsford
Oliver Pearson · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 17, 2026 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago
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Thieves in the Clarendon area, near the southern New Brunswick community of Welsford, cut and stripped copper wire from Bell cables, leaving about 135 customers without service since Jan. 3. (Bell)
If Allan Speight wants to make a phone call, he has to drive about eight kilometres down the road to the Welsford Irving gas station.
This has been going on since Jan. 3, when someone stole more than a kilometre’s worth of Bell’s copper cable from the area.
“If anything happens, I have no way to get any help. … no one can get a hold of me,” said Speight, who lives in Clarendon, about 35 kilometres northwest of Saint John.
He is still without Bell service at his home and doesn’t ever have cellular service.
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