A 6-foot bronze bunny sculpture worth $11,000 is back home after it was stolen earlier this month.
Chauncey Too — a limited edition 150-pound bunny sculpted by Jim Budish— was recovered Tuesday when Tucson police received a tip that an 18-year-old Tucson man had the bunny and was looking to sell it, according to a news release from the Pima County Sheriff's Department, which is in charge of the investigation.
An undercover officer went to the house in the 3000 block of East Patricia Street, near North Country Club and East Fort Lowell roads, to purchase the statue where he met Brent Marr and Benjamin M. Gwozdz.
The men sold Chauncey Too for $300 after which a search warrant was served on the house.
Chauncey Too had been stolen when it was left outside a home as a lawn decoration.
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Marr and Gwozdz, 20, were both arrested on suspicion of theft and trafficking in stolen property, the release said.
A third person, Alexander M. Prewitt, 19, was arrested on suspicion of theft.
All three men lived in the house on Patricia Street and are friends, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a sheriff's spokeswoman.
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