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PROVO — Police are looking for burglars who vandalized a Provo church in October, causing extensive damage.
On the morning of Sunday, Oct. 27, police say members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attending a meetinghouse at 1260 W. 1150 North arrived to discover that someone had entered the church overnight by breaking a window on the south side of the building.
"Once inside, the suspect or suspects causes several thousand dollars in damage to multiple areas of the building. The organ was smashed, a microphone system was beaten, a bathroom was attempted to be flooded, pictures were ripped from the walls and TVs broken," according to court documents.
Provo police on Wednesday said the organ was "completely trashed" and broken beyond repair. A total estimated dollar amount for the damage was still being tallied.
Officers also discovered that the vandals had gotten into some ice cream in a freezer. When officers were called about 7:30 a.m., the ice cream was still melting and had not been out of the freezer long enough to turn to liquid, leading them to believe the vandals likely broke in sometime after midnight.
"The type of damage and the eating the ice cream makes it seem likely that the suspect or suspects are juveniles," police noted in a search warrant affidavit.
Anyone with information about the vandalism is asked to call Provo police at 801-852-6210.
