{"id":491096,"date":"2026-05-18T19:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/491096\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:20:12","slug":"bronze-statue-that-was-stolen-from-greeley-park-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/491096\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze statue that was stolen from Greeley park is found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bronze statue that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2026\/05\/13\/greeley-bronze-statue-stolen-glenmere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sawed off its ankles at Glenmere Park in Greeley<\/a> was found at a Commerce City-based metal recycling business, and has been returned to Greeley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prize Catch\u201d by Kurt Jungblut was found May 13 at Rocky Mountain Recycling, a business that buys and recycles scrap metals, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DmbRAL9yH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Greeley Police Department Facebook post<\/a>. The statue was found one day after it was reported stolen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"This bronze statue was stolen from Glenmere Park in Greeley on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Only the base of the statue was left. (Courtesy of Greeley Police Department)\" width=\"642\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GRE-Z-STATUE-0514.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1613344\" \/>This bronze statue was stolen from Glenmere Park in Greeley on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Only the base of the statue was left. (Courtesy of Greeley Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>The company realized the bronze statue sold to the business matched the description of the stolen statue and reported it to Greeley detectives. The statue has been returned to the city\u2019s parks department.<\/p>\n<p>Greeley Public Art Coordinator Kim Snyder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2026\/05\/14\/greeley-statue-stolen-art-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previously said that if the statue was found<\/a>, the city could refurbish it and put it back on display.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the theft can contact Detective Lisa Labracke at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2026\/05\/18\/greeley-glenmere-bronze-statue-found\/mailto:lisa.labracke@greeleypd.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lisa.labracke@greeleypd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bronze statue that was sawed off its ankles at Glenmere Park in Greeley was found at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,7544,49508,103873,366,18,117,23059,59032,214245,19,17,2323,3136,5,147330],"class_list":["post-491096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-front-range","tag-greeley","tag-greeley-art","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-weld-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116597203450832050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}