YOUNGSTOWN - Police are reviewing security videos in the hope of finding out who stole a heating, ventilation, and cooling system from a business on Youngstown’s Westside.

The manager of P&S Bakery on Intertech Driver reported on Friday that someone had taken the business's HVAC equipment overnight.

Video from a security camera shows a man loosening the system’s bolts in the parking lot, then loading it into a Subaru station wagon before driving away.

Police are also looking at videos from neighboring businesses.

It was the second such crime reported in the same week.

A few days earlier, the administrator for Concordia Lutheran Church on the city’s Westside told officers that someone stole the HVAC system from the back of the church on North Brockway Avenue.

According to the police report, the theft occurred sometime between Sunday and Wednesday.

Authorities say HVAC units are targeted by thieves who harvest the valuable copper from the coils and sell it to scrap metal dealers.

Jim Welsh says it's been going on in the eight years he's been president at Bear Heating & Cooling. 

"With a dolly they could probably have that unit out and gone in five minutes.", said Welsh.

The copper and metal in the coils net the thieves around $1 per pound, just a fraction of the thousands it would cost the homeowner to replace the unit, if home insurance didn't cover it.

Welsh says there are ways to protect yourself from becoming a victim including a trip wire that goes around the unit that would sound the alarm if it were to get cut.

"There is also pressure switches you could put on the unit that ties into your home security.  If pressure were to drop in the system it will set off the alarm.", Welsh concluded.