BREITUNG TOWNSHIP (AP) — A Purple Heart monument that was stolen from the Upper Peninsula Veterans Memorial has been returned.
State Police say the large reproduction of a Purple Heart medal was taken sometime between Tuesday evening and Thursday afternoon from the memorial in
Dickinson County's Breitung Township. The medal is given for wounds suffered in combat.
Police issued an update early Friday, saying the monument had been dropped off near the memorial and appears to have been damaged in the theft.
The theft is under investigation.
- Posted May 30, 2017
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