SPOKANE, Wash. (The Spokesman-Review) — Deputies with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office unearthed a missing Mead monument over Memorial Day weekend.
The law enforcement agency located and returned to its owners on Friday a large metal Tyrannosaurus rex, more than two months after the shiny, silvery statue was stolen from a roundabout at Dupont Road and Mellon Parkway. The damage caused to the statue’s stand and the statue, which resembles a mylar balloon in the shape of a cartoon dinosaur, were estimated to be worth around $70,000.
The statue was found by deputies buried on land north of Deer Park near Short Road and Montgomery Road, after the agency received an anonymous tip about the theropod’s whereabouts, according to a news release from sheriff’s office spokesman Cpl. Mark Gregory…