Merced officials ask for help finding stolen zoo sign

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE)- The City of Merced Parks and Recreation Department is asking the assemblage to support their eyes unfastened for immoderate beloved stolen property.

In a Sunday greeting social media post that has been shared among assorted Merced officials, the Parks and Recreation section appealed to the assemblage to assistance it find the Applegate Zoo motion which had conscionable been installed past month.

According to the post, the motion was stolen.

The motion guides schoolhouse groups and different visitors to the zoo's facility, which has existed since 1962. Applegate Zoo houses astir 75 Native California mammals, birds, and reptiles, astir of which were antecedently astatine wildlife rescue centers.

The Parks and Recreation Department is asking anyone who whitethorn unrecorded adjacent the zoo and noticed suspicious activity, oregon knows the whereabouts of the sign, to delight interaction the Merced Police Department astatine 209-385-6905.