Po­lice have re­cov­ered the three swords stolen from the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) last month.

On April 16, CCTV cam­eras cap­tured four bare­back men steal­ing the swords from the mu­se­um.

They took a Japan­ese Katana, be­lieved to be from the World War I era or ear­li­er, val­ued at $6,600; a Japan­ese Wak­iza­shi short sword worth ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3,600; and a repli­ca sword with red be­tween the han­dles. The val­ue of the repli­ca was not pro­vid­ed.

Last evening, CMHAM’s Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer (PRO) Kathy-Ann Ed­wards said of­fi­cers from the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion (where the re­port was made) called and said they found the swords. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that one of the sus­pects, a man in his 20s from Laven­tille, brought back the three stolen ar­ti­facts to the po­lice sta­tion where mu­se­um Di­rec­tor Lin­da Kelshall col­lect­ed them.

On Car­ni­val Mon­day (March 3), the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) locked the mu­se­um pro­pri­etors out of the premis­es af­ter serv­ing two evic­tion no­tices.

On March 7, the court grant­ed the pro­pri­etors an in­junc­tion al­low­ing them to re­oc­cu­py the mu­se­um.

Ed­wards told CNC3 News that they are just hap­py the swords are back at the mu­se­um and they will not press charges.