The White Fence Farm restaurant and park is no longer sheepless in Lakewood.
“The sheep are coming home,” owner Charlie Wilson told the Post today.
Thieves stole two bronze sheep sculptures worth tens of thousands of dollars from the bucolic grounds of the famed fried-chicken eatery in July to sell as scrap metal.
A suspect was arrested later that month, but only one decapitated piece of bronze was recovered. The alleged thief had tried to pass it off as a bronze cow at a metal-recycling yard.
Wilson told the Post he commissioned replica sheep statuary, plus a turtle, from the original artist and is installing them on the 12-acre estate Friday.
He is also installing a new, “state-of-the-art” security system with night vision and motion sensors to stop the sheep from wandering off again.
Wilson said he is glad the rather “gruesome” tale of dismemberment now has a happy ending.
Electa Draper: 303-954-1276 or edraper@denverpost.com
