GREELEY, Colo -- About 80 gnomes soon may be home.Police found the gnomes, often used as garden decorations, stashed in black plastic bags and surrounded by kids Saturday.
Elsie Schnorr says someone is stealing her front yard gnomes.
Police Sgt. Dave Adams said investigators don't think the kids stole the gnomes, but most likely simply found them.Adams said police will call people who reported their gnomes stolen to come identify and pick up their pint-size friends.Elsie Schnorr, who had 30 gnomes stolen from her front law more than a month ago, will be among the first to retrieve her gnomes."I could identify every one of them. My name isn't on them, but I know which ones are mine. Most of mine are one-of-kind," she said.They're valued at $20-$30 each, according to Schnorr.Police don't have any suspects, and neither does the Weld County Sheriff's Office, which also has received numerous reports of missing gnomes."If they stole them to throw them away, that's pretty sad," said the the 72-year-old Greeley resident. "If they stole them, that's pathetic, period."
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