A giant red spoon that was stolen from an Arizona Dairy Queen and sparked a mystery on social media was found Monday morning, and it’s partly thanks to Pokémon GO.
Michael Foster, 52, was playing the outdoor mobile game when he spotted the 15-foot spoon around 7 a.m. It was lying on the ground behind a fence that surrounds a Phoenix middle school baseball field, just two miles from the scene of the heist.
“The first thing I did was send a picture to my wife and I said, ‘It’s the spoon.’ She said call the police,” Foster told The Associated Press.
“I can confirm the Dairy Queen ‘red spoon’ was located and recovered this morning,” Sgt. Brian Bower said in an email Monday.
Detectives are continuing to search for the suspects, described by police in a flyer as two males and one female, who took the spoon, he added. Police are encouraging the public to submit any tips. A school maintenance man came over and pushed the spoon, valued at over $3,500, over the fence to Foster, who handed it to Phoenix police.
“I set it down. They actually did the lifting after we got it over the fence,” Foster said. “They strapped it to the top of a police cruiser.”
Raman and Puja Kalra / AP
Foster said nobody else was around and the school was just opening when he saw it. “I did kind of look around and was like ‘What?’ One guy did finally come by and was like, ‘Is that what I think it is?’ Yeah, that’s the spoon.”
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said she was happy the spoon had been recovered, saying in a tweet that “they scooped it up from a schoolyard this morning.”
Phoenix police over the weekend released surveillance footage from March 25 that showed two men and one woman get the spoon out of its base and put it on a large flatbed connected to a pickup truck.
Owners Raman and Puja Kalra said last week that they hoped to get it back….
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