Sheriff: 'Intentional vandalism' at substations the cause of power outage affecting over 40K residents of Moore County - WRAL News

Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said just before midnight that the outage was being investigated as a "criminal occurrence.".

A Duke Energy outage map Saturday evening showed 37,998 customers without power in Moore County; The Randolph Electric Membership Corporation also reported nearly 3,000 customers without power in the southern part of the county.

Jeff Brooks with Duke Energy told WRAL News that crews are experiencing "multiple equipment failures" that are affecting substations in Moore County.

Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said just before midnight that the outage was being investigated as a "criminal occurrence.".