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Updated at 6:55 a.m., Dec. 23, 2014
Some 10 days after it disappeared, a wooden Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is back at the Ranchview Road community in Rolling Hills Estates Tuesday after a tip led sheriff’s deputies to recover it in a trailer park in Gardena and arrest a man who lives there, authorities said today.
The statue was recovered Monday night after fliers circulated in the area led to a tip and sent deputies to a trailer park, where the statue was found atop a mobile home, said lieutenant John Burcher of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lomita Station. He did not give the location of the trailer park.
The deputies obtained a warrant and recovered the wooden statue, Burcher said. The mobile home’s resident was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property.
The suspect was identified as the trailer home’s owner Sandro Gonzalez.
“He told detectives he was a gardener who worked in the Lomita area,” said Sgt. Mark Moffett of the sheriff’s Lomita Station.
The suspect told deputies he found the statue, the lieutenant said. Whether he found the statue or stole it was under investigation. The man was released on bail.
The case will be presented to the District Attorney’s Office on December 24 in Torrance Court, Moffett said.
The reindeer statue with a red light bulb nose disappeared Dec. 12 and the Ranchview community built a new one Sunday, according to news reports.
—City News Service