āSearching for Jesusā Cops hunt thieves who stole holy statue
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September 17, 2026
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) ā Thieves who made off with a $50,000 statue of Jesus from outside a church in California were being pursued by police on Thursday.
The bronze sculpture was cut off at its feet using a power tool, police said, before being loaded into a vehicle at the church in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles.
A photograph released by the local police department shows a pair of disembodied bronze feet on the plinth where the statue had once stood, next to a still-intact cast of John the Baptist.
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