RALEIGH, N.C. — The FBI says that a power substation disabled in Eastern North Carolina last November was damaged by gunfire, three weeks before similar attacks caused a massive outage in Moore County.
The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information about the attack on the Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative substation outside Maysville in Jones County. It marks the first time the FBI has acknowledged that it is investigating the incident.
The substation was damaged Nov. 11, shutting down electricity to about 12,000 homes and businesses for about two hours.
