The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup wants its bishop's crozier back. Diocese spokesman Lee Lamb says the crozier, or staff, was in a suitcase that was taken between June 1 and June 4 from a vehicle belonging to the diocese's finance director, Jim Hoy.
Lamb says the diocese is offering a reward through McKinley Crimestoppers and wants the crozier returned to the chancery office in Gallup or any parish, no questions asked.
He says the crozier has fake jewels and has no real monetary value.
But he says it has sentimental value to the diocese because it was used by the diocese's first bishop, Bernard Espelage, when the pope created the Gallup Diocese in 1939.
It has been used by bishops ever since.
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