Stolen Sculpture Retrieved from Scrap Heap

LOS ANGELES—A six-foot, 512-pound sculpture cut from its base in a busy intersection in Los Angeles last February has been recovered in a local scrap yard and will be reinstalled in the next two weeks, city officials say.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Departement's art theft detail tracked down the sculpture of a gold miner, which had been cut in half and purchased by the scrap yard for $900.

Two men, Sebastian Espana, 22, and Jessie Hernandez, 23, were later arrested on suspicion of grand theft in connection with a series of thefts of bronze statues in the area.

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