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Arrest warrant issued for man in Confederate monument theft

stone chair Confederate monument Jefferson Davis Selma
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A warrant is has been issued for the man responsible for removing a Confederate monument from an Alabama cemetery and taking it to Louisiana.

Selma police have charged Jason Warnick with theft for the disappearance of a chair-shaped monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Two other people were charged along with Warnick with illegally possessing it after it went missing in March and was found in his tattoo shop in New Orleans.

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