{"id":439138,"date":"2026-08-21T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:30:08","slug":"city-of-paramounts-100k-bronze-military-memorial-statue-stolen-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439138\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Paramount\u2019s $100K bronze military memorial statue stolen \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau are working to track down at least one person suspected of stealing a bronze memorial statue outside Paramount City Hall.<\/p>\n

Deputies responded late Wednesday morning after a city employee reported the bronze statue depicting a kneeling soldier and a separate bronze rifle had been stolen hours earlier.<\/p>\n

According to the LASD, surveillance video obtained during the investigation shows a dark-colored vehicle parked near the memorial at around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. The suspected thief could be seen exiting the vehicle and using a tool to remove the statue before getting back in the vehicle and leaving, the sheriff’s department said.<\/p>\n

Investigators were unable to obtain additional descriptions about either the suspect or vehicle due to the poor quality of video.<\/p>\n

The combined value of the stolen statue and rifle is estimated at approximately $100,000, the LASD said.<\/p>\n

The memorial, installed in November 2024, is no stranger to crime.<\/p>\n

Pieces of the memorial statue were vandalized and stolen in May 2025<\/a>, days before planned Memorial Day celebrations in the city. In that instance, someone sawed off parts of a statue, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.<\/p>\n

City officials said in a May 2025 social media post that they were “deeply saddened and troubled,” referring to the previous incident, adding, “this is a shameful act of disrespect to those who risked their lives protecting our country and freedoms, as this memorial stands as a symbol of honor and their sacrifice.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the city said additional information about this week’s theft is expected to be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau are working to track down at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3552,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-439138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}