Sacramento County deputies recover stolen Virgin Mary statue [Video]

A Northern California family is reunited with a statue of the Virgin Mary that was stolen from their home.The homeowner, Kenny Kieu, tracked it down after a sister station KCRA viewer spotted it for sale online.”He found the statue through KCRA — that it was being offered on a site called OfferUp, where it was trying to be sold privately. Did some work of his own. And was able to kind of track it to this residence here,” said Sgt. Amar Gandhi with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. After a story aired Sunday night stating the statue had been stolen, Kieu messaged the sellers and alerted deputies to a home on Sheldon Lake Drive. Kieu waited for several hours on Monday as deputies searched the property. “He did the right thing and alerted us. And this is when we got involved. He didn’t try to take any action in his …