A pair of crafty thieves was caught on surveillance video making off with a large bronze ram that sat outside the KUIU headquarters in Dixon for nearly a decade.
When the bronze piece of art could not be rammed into the backseat of their vehicle, the thieves drove off and returned with a dolly to cart it away on New Year’s Eve.
KUIU posted on social media asking for the Solano County community’s help to get their beloved “Rocky” the ram back and are now offering a $5,000 reward for information.
The company wrote on Facebook, “Help us find the criminals who took our bronze Ram, Rocky, who stood as a beloved welcome to anyone who visited our Dixon store. On Dec. 31, criminals cut him down and stole him from us. We are offering a $5k reward for information leading to the arrest of the persons who did this.”
“Just to have it chopped down because some guy thinks he can make a few bucks on it. That’s why we can’t have nice things in today’s society,” said Josh Tobey, the artist who sculpted the ram in 2017. “Rocky, our missing ram, he was really a proud focal point for KUIU at their headquarters there in Dixon, and it’s just a tragedy to see it destroyed.”
Tobey is a second-generation bronze sculptor and has created hundreds of life-size bronze animal art pieces that sit in public and private collections across the world…