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Stolen Mill Creek Park statue will be reinstalled this spring

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Mill Creek MetroParks officials say it will be spring before they re-install a stolen statue that was recovered on Wednesday.

A scrap dealer led police to the bronze sculpture of a kneeling girl which was taken from Fellows Riverside Garden.

Park police are looking for ways to improve security for the statue.

"There are cameras throughout the Davis Center. So putting a camera out here is a definite possibility," said Mill Creek MetroParks Police Chief Jim Willock.

"The sculpture will go back in place. We need to reattach a couple of the anchor pins and secure it again," said Keith Kaiser from The Davis Center at Mill Creek MetroParks.

Twenty-year-old Braylon Hunter is accused of selling the 12 thousand dollar statue to the scrap yard for $89. He has been charged with receiving stolen property.