An $8,000 copper bear statue was stolen from the University of Maine just days after four vandals destroyed an $4,000 campus sign, campus police said.
UM police are now offering a $500 reward to anyone with credible information about who stole the bear in front of the Buchanan Alumni House on the school’s Orono campus on Nov. 23.
The robbery came three days after four suspected men destroyed the sign in front of the same building, police said in a Facebook post.
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University of Maine police are offering a $500 reward for credible information leading to the identification of the suspects involved in the theft of the bear statue.
(University of Maine Police Department)
Police released photos of the four suspects who destroyed the sign in an incident caught on video after midnight on November 20.
The suspects were later identified and referred to school authorities, according to the Bangor Daily News.
A UM spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the case of the missing sculpture remains under investigation.
Police at the University of Maine are searching for the suspects who stole a bear statue.
(Denis Tangney Jr via Getty Images)
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Those with credible leads were encouraged to contact the UM Police at um.policedepartment@maine.edu.
The University of Maine is a public land-grant research university established in 1865 on Marsh Island in the Penobscot River.
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The University of Maine is a public land-grant research university established in 1865 on Marsh Island on the Penobscot River in the small town of Orono, less than 10 miles from Bangor.
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Home to 11,989 graduate and undergraduate students, the school’s mascot has been a black bear for more than a century.
