A 67-year-old man accused of stealing sections of the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” memorial in Denver’s Metropolis Park has been arrested, in keeping with metropolis jail information.
Herman Duran was arrested on suspicion of theft and felony mischief on March 10 and is in custody on the Downtown Detention Middle on a $5,000 bail, in keeping with the town’s jail log.
Duran was recognized as a suspect after three bronze items of the memorial have been stolen on Feb. 18.
A second suspect within the case, 47-year-old Robert Duran, was additionally needed within the case however turned himself into police on Feb. 29 and was arrested on suspicion of felony mischief.
The theft was reported on Feb. 21 by parks upkeep employees, who found a bronze panel, torch and angel have been faraway from the memorial.
The items have been recovered, together with stolen bronze items from the Joseph Addison Thatcher memorial fountain, after they have been offered as scrap steel to a neighborhood enterprise, in keeping with the Denver Police Division.
All the recovered items have been returned to Denver Arts & Venues, which manages the monuments.
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