UPDATED 3:19 P.M.
PEORIA, Ill. – It didn’t take long.
Not long after a statue of a wolf was reported missing from outside a central Peoria home, it’s been found.
Sources tell us owner Blair Gambill is saying on social media that there was only a little damage to the statue of a wolf that was taken from a pedestal outside of the Knolls Castle home near Knoxville and War Memorial Drive.
He didn’t make the post widely public, but the screenshot we saw indicated that while on his way to work, JOLT Harm Reduction director Chris Schaffner saw the statue in an alley with some garbage.
Gambill told 25 News Wednesday night the statue had to have been stolen while he was on vacation last week, and that he still had hours of surveillance video to review.
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UPDATED 2:14 P.M.
According to Facebook posts shared with WMBD News but do not show up publicly on social media, Gambill says the statue has been found in an alley and has been returned.
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PEORIA, Ill. – A statue that’s pretty hard to miss if you travel through north and central Peoria is missing.
It’s a statue of a wolf that’s on the house at the corner of Knoxville and War Memorial Drive – the first house you see when entering “The Knolls.”
Owner Blair Gambill tells 25 News for him, and was pretty special.
“The artist actually painted them, and they were kind of a big deal to us. We got the one pillar here; we were going to put another on on this side,” said Gimbill.
Gambill says it was stolen sometime last week while he was on vacation, and there’s still days worth of surveillance video to go through.
“I still have the other one. This one is gone, I haven’t been able to find a replacement. It was actually glued to the top of the thing, so it wasn’t just like they carried it away,” said Gambill.
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