KANSAS CITY (AP) — A man has been charged with receiving stolen property after Kansas City police recovered pieces of a statue of a Native American woman that was stolen earlier this week.
Clay County prosecutors charged Charles Fuentes, 56, on Friday. He is being held on $25,000 bond.
Help from the public helped detectives find a large section of the 400-pound, 7-foot-tall statue but it had already been cut into pieces, police said.
The statue was sheared from its bolts at the François Chouteau and Native American Heritage Fountain in northern Kansas City sometime between Monday and Wednesday, police said. It has an estimated value of $80,000.
The fountain honors American Indians and French trader François Chouteau for their roles in founding Kansas City.