Not only the police. Around 1980 some altar vessels were stolen from St. Anthony of Padua in Little Italy, in Manhattan. About a week later they mysteriously turned up (St. Antony Padua is the Patron saint of lost causes) and a couple of Melanzane turned up stuffed in a dumpster with their penises sewed into their mouths.
Hummmm........colloquial Italian. /s
Melanzane parmigiana - one of my favorite meals. LOL!!