Police in New Orleans are looking for a person accused of destroying a statue of Jesus in a church

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – New Orleans Police Department officers are trying to locate and identify the person who allegedly broke off the arms of a statue of Jesus in a church on May 28.

NOPD said that around 11 p.m., a person climbed over the fence of the church in the 1200 block of South Carrollton Avenue and broke off the arms of the statue and the windshield of a car before taking off on a bicycle.

On June 4, Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church released security camera footage to WGNO showing a vandal jumping over a fence to remove a statue of Padre Pio and then place it at the church’s front door. The person then knocked the hands off the statue of Jesus.

Anyone with information about criminal damage can call NOPD Second District detectives at 504-658-6020 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.

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