{"id":67002,"date":"2025-11-27T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67002\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:35:16","slug":"sundance-square-ornament-returned-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67002\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Square ornament returned \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stolen ornament taken from the Sundance Square Christmas tree was returned early Wednesday morning, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wednesday, around 2:30 a.m., an anonymous person on a motorcycle drove up on the sidewalk around Sundance Square Plaza and handed the ornament off to a passerby, according to a Sundance Square spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The person asked the passerby to return it to the Sundance Square security team.<\/p>\n<p>The ornament created by Arely Morales was a sentimental piece for the artist. Morales had painted the ornament in memory of her beloved cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/sundance-square-christmas-ornament-stolen-tree\/3949227\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The piece was stolen around 1 a.m. on Sunday.<\/a> A woman was seen on camera jumping out of a dark gray SUV and stealing Morales&#8217; ornament from the tree and taking off with it.<\/p>\n<p>After the ornament&#8217;s safe return, Morales said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feeling so happy we\u2019ll get a chance to see it again. Thanks to everyone in the community for all the love and support you&#8217;ve given us, and for helping us get to this point. And to the person who took it, thanks for bringing it back! I can imagine it wasn&#8217;t an easy decision, but I sincerely appreciate it,&#8221; Morales said after the ornament&#8217;s safe return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stolen ornament taken from the Sundance Square Christmas tree was returned early Wednesday morning, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34560,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-67002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-christmas-trees","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}