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Police: Items stolen to possibly decorate another house
By TOM ALEX
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

February 23, 2007
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Burglars who broke into a house in the 600 block of 18th Street in Des Moines recently took stereo equipment, a computer, end tables, bottles of wine and one item the owner values above all others: a framed cross-stitch of a woman in a gold frame with maroon matting. It's valued at $1,000.

Kelly Wilson told police other items were moved to other locations in the house. Several decorative items were missing and a television was found on a bed in a spare bedroom. Police said the intruders apparently were spooked and fled the residence without taking everything they'd gathered up.

The police report says, 'The burglary appears to have been done to possibly decorate another house.'