Link to June 17 Dallas News.
Excerpt: The Allen Public Library's missing statute of a boy reading a book turned up in pieces at a Dallas recycling yard.
"They'd broken the head off, they'd cut the bench in half, they'd broken his arms off," said Detective John Easton of the Dallas Police Department's metal theft squad.
Easton said he gave the pieces of the 2,500-pound bronze statue to Allen police today, as well as information on two suspects.
Easton said the suspects tried to sell the statue's pieces to Claxton Recycling Inc. on June 4. An employee was suspicious and alerted an off-duty police officer working at the yard, who confiscated the pieces. The suspects were not paid.
Related article:
2,500-pound status stolen from Allen Public Library. (6/15/2010)
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