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Restaurant offers reward for the return of bust
By Times Staff Writer
Published December 15, 2005
TAMPA - The Columbia Restaurant is offering a $2,500 reward for the return of a bronze bust stolen outside the Ybor City business over the weekend.
Sometime after 2 a.m. Sunday, someone stole the bust of Columbia matriarch Adela Gonzmart from 117 E Seventh Ave. Tampa police said the bust was outside the view of surveillance cameras and they have no description of anyone who might have taken it.
Richard Gonzmart, Adela Gonzmart's son and a fourth-generation owner of the 100-year-old Columbia, said the reward offer is good through Dec. 22, the four-year anniversary of his mother's death. He said whoever took the bust can drop it off at the front door of the restaurant, no questions asked.
The Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau contributed $1,000 of the reward money. The rest came from the restaurant.
Anyone with information about the theft can call Tampa police at (813) 276-3200 or the Columbia Restaurant's corporate office at (813) 248-3000, ext. 22.
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