TARENTUM, Pa. — SATURDAY UPDATE: The flags have been returned.
When a Tarentum police officer pulled up to her ice cream shop holding the flag Saturday, Cindy Hatajik was speechless.
"I was just so happy. It was gut-wrenching for me," she said. "It's just.... the flags are home."
Police were able to track down the man who stole the flags from a neighbor's surveillance video. The officer also made the man apologize to Hatajik.
Flags honoring American troops were stolen from an Allegheny County ice cream stand.
Cindy Hatajik, owner of Cindy's Soft Serve and Custard in Tarentum, found six flags missing.
While she would like to them all returned, she's begging to get one back in particular.
She put them out for Memorial Day, but by Wednesday they were gone.
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Among the flags was one from the U.S. Marine Corps, given to her by her veteran father.
Hatajik told Channel 11 she just wants it back, even if someone anonymously returns it.
The flags disappeared around the same time two flags were reported missing at Brackenridge Memorial Park, less than half a mile away.
One of those flags honored prisoners of war.
Police don't know if the cases are connected.
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