CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A total of $50,000 is being offered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as reward money for information leading to arrests and convictions in two separate substation shooting incidents. 

Friday, Feb. 3, marked two months since the first substation shooting in Moore County. On the night of Dec. 3, two Duke Energy substations were shot, leaving about 45,000 customers without power.

Duke Energy managed to get nearly 10,000 customers back online in a couple of days, but thousands across the county were in the dark for four days after what was deemed an intentional and criminal attack on the power stations, according to Sheriff Robbie Fields. 

Whoever took aim at the substations that December night “knew exactly what they were doing to cause the damage and cause the outage that they did,” the sheriff said. 

Agents in the FBI's Charlotte Field Office are working with the Moore County Sheriff's Office to find whoever is responsible, and they're offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to their arrest and conviction. In the days following the attack, the governor announced a combined reward of $75,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. 

The FBI is offering another $25,000 for a separate attack that happened Jan. 17 at an EnergyUnited substation near Thomasville in Randolph County. No one lost power in that incident, but equipment was damaged, according to authorities. 

Officials haven't said how much it will cost to fix the substations, but similar attacks in states like Oregon and California cost the utility companies thousands — and even millions — of dollars.

The FBI doesn't think the December and January incidents are connected, and anyone with information on either shooting is asked to contact these agencies:

• Moore County Sheriff’s Office at 910-947-4444
• Randolph County Sheriff’s Office at 336-318-6685
• FBI at 1-800-CALL FBI or tips.fbi.gov