For church thieves, nothing is sacred

Sacramento Bee ^ | 11/27/7 | Hudson Sangree

[SmithL]

Safe cracked, thousands stolen from a parish in Woodland --

It isn't often that a police officer has to dust a statue of Jesus for fingerprints, but that's what Kelly York found herself doing Monday afternoon at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland.

She wasn't happy about it.

"He's pretty clean," York said after delicately, and reluctantly, brushing the figure with black fingerprint powder.

York and two other Woodland officers were at Holy Rosary because overnight someone broke into the white, mission-style church at the corner of Court and Walnut streets downtown.

Intruders smashed a window, used a blowtorch to cut a hole in the church's safe and made off with thousands of dollars collected over the holiday weekend. Much of the money was from a special Thanksgiving service and was meant to feed the poor.

A tall processional cross, bearing a silver likeness of Jesus, stood beside the broken window. Investigators thought the thieves might have grabbed the crucifix for support as they climbed down from the high windowsill.

At the crime scene, shards of glass crunched underfoot. A homemade wooden ladder lay on the floor. Police theorized it was used it to reach the street-side window and then dragged in.

[SmithL]

Of course, if this was a mosque, CAIR would be out claimin Hate Crimes.

[nevergore]

If this were a mosque, the money wouldn’t be laying around....

It would already been shipped to terrorists in the Middle East.....