LONDON – The Metropolitan Police are looking for a stuffed Arctic wolf, which was stolen from a flat in Chelsea in the early hours of Monday morning.
The wolf has been described as 6 feet long, 3 feet tall, and "snarling." It's worth £32,000 ($50,130) and was purchased from a taxidermy shop six years ago.
The crime is already strange, but it gets weirder – the suspects are three men in their early '20s who had met the female owner of the wolf on a night out in Soho. The woman, her female friend, and the three men went back to the victim's flat at the end of the night (around 4 a.m. London time on Monday), and the men left around an hour after that. An unspecified time later that morning, the woman discovered her wolf was missing.
At the time of writing, a number of key questions remain. If these men did take the wolf, did they know how valuable it was? Why would someone want to kidnap an innocent stuffed wolf? And how do you even sneak a 6-foot wolf out of a flat and through the streets of London without people noticing?
The Metropolitan police are appealing for more information.
"This is a unique item and I am appealing to anyone who may know the three suspects or have information about the stolen Arctic wolf to contact police," said Detective Sergeant Sean Lyons.