{"id":459639,"date":"2010-03-22T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9637523970b"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:25:08","slug":"police-search-for-horse-statue-stolen-from-o-c-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459639","title":{"rendered":"Police search for horse statue stolen from O.C. store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/content\/articles\/2010\/03\/19\/publicsafety\/dpt-feedbarn032010.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px; width: 287px; height: 383px;\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Costa Mesa police detectives have an unusual kidnapping investigation on their hands: A 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-long\u00a0horse statue that has been a landmark of sorts in the city.<\/p>\n<p>And they are puzzled by\u00a0not only how the horse was taken &#8212; but why.<\/p>\n<p>For what store owners are saying is probably the fourth or fifth time, the\u00a0fiberglass horse in front of the Feed Barn in Costa Mesa \u2014 nicknamed \u201cTrigger\u201d by customers \u2014 has been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>The palomino-colored steed was secured in concrete, with rebar in his hooves fastening it in front of the pet food store at 2300 Newport Blvd., said manager Jenni Engelstad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a group of 16- and 17-year-olds, I wouldn\u2019t care as long as I get it back,\u201d Engelstad told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/19\/publicsafety\/dpt-feedbarn032010.txt\">Daily Pilot.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cA high school prank is all in good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Engelstad and police are hoping that\u2019s exactly what it is.\u00a0The last few times that Trigger has been stolen \u2014 all which took place more than 10 years ago \u2014 it would reappear at a local school, Engelstad said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joseph Serna, Daily Pilot<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Daily Pilot<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa Mesa police detectives have an unusual kidnapping investigation on their hands: A 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-long\u00a0horse statue that has been a landmark of sorts in the city. And they are puzzled by\u00a0not only how the horse was taken &#8212; but why. For what store owners are saying is probably the fourth or fifth time, the\u00a0fiberglass horse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}