Thief steals statues from a church and distributes them in the city (PHOTO)

A strange event has surprised the city of luquilloin Puerto Rico: a thief stole statues from a parish and distributed them in different parts of the city. He tells it ChurchPop.es.

The curious event took place in parish of San José de Luquillo. According to local media, between last Saturday and Sunday, a thief entered a warehouse annexed to the Church and took five statues of Saints.

In the morning the parish authorities discovered what had happened and alerted the police about the theft of the sculptures. However, they found that the statues had appeared in several places in the city.

The image of the Risen Christ appeared in front of the town hall of Luquillo, the statue of the Immaculate Conception was found on a platform, the paschal candle was placed in front of the police station and another image of the Virgin was found in a garden.

The parish priest father Francis Okih Peter he told the parishioners that the thief most likely entered from the back of the temple and took the Saints from an adjacent warehouse.

According to local media, it is not excluded that those who took the statues of the saints and left them in different parts of the city may have mental health problems.

People Daniel Fuentes Rivera he explained that the Criminal Investigative Corps will try to find fingerprints on the religious statues to search for the perpetrator.

He also confirmed that they are investigating security cameras located in different parts of the city and that they have managed to visualize a person.