Maybe this will put a stop to this annoying Christmas tradition.
At 6:45 a.m. Thursday, a village employee noticed that the statue was missing. Building maintenance supervisor Gus Arnold logged on to the monitoring system and saw that it was taken from the manger at 10 p.m. Wednesday.(via)
Arnold homed in on Jesus' location and called the sheriff's office to get it back.
Jesus was in a home on Suellen Circle, in a neighborhood across the street from the Nativity scene.
Deputies knocked on the door Thursday morning. When a woman answered, they saw the statue face-down on the living room floor.
The woman's son directed the deputies to the alleged culprit.
The simple spur-of-the-moment prank landed an 18-year-old suburban Lake Worth woman in jail, charged with a felony. Danielle Santino told deputies she took the statue and dropped it at a friend's house, then left.
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Santino's friend, 18-year-old Fernando Silva, was initially arrested but cooperated with deputies and was released. Santino turned herself in and was booked into Palm Beach County Jail with bail set at $3,500. She is charged with a felony for taking an item valued at $800, plus $400 for the GPS system.
