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Hospital says statue was not of Rodman

Associated Press - August 5, 2009 5:05 PM ET

TOWNSHEND, Vt. (AP) - Turns out it wasn't a statue of Dennis Rodman, and police now say it wasn't really stolen.

Vermont State Police said Wednesday they were investigating the theft of a 7-foot bronze statue of the former basketball star from a hospital charity auction.

They said the victim of the theft was Kenneth Moberly of Wardsboro, who placed the winning bid on the sculpture and then asked that it be delivered to his home.

Police later said the statue wasn't really Rodman and that it merely had been taken for safekeeping by another auction patron when it was left on the town green after the event.

A spokeswoman for Grace Cottage Hospital says the Rodman rumor started when an advertisement said the statue could be the former NBA star.

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