KXO RADIO - Metal bell taken from El Centro church

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Todays is : Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Written by George Gale
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
(Thieves stoop to new low)….Last month thieves were arrested stealing metal vases from the Mountain View Cemetery in Calexico. This week thieves stole from a church. El Centro Police say sometime Monday night somebody took the brass bell from the First United Methodist Church on South 8 Street. Investigators suspect at least two thieves were involved. The bell was on display outside the church at the time of the theft. The 3-foot bell had been salvaged from a fire that had destroyed the church in 1962. The bell had been on display on a concrete block for the past 30 years. There are reports of witnesses seeing two suspects in the area Monday. Police say the thieves may have taken to bell to Mexicali.