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A 58-foot bridge disappeared from a field in Ohio. A man hired a crane service to steal it, police say.

by Jaclyn Peiser

The metal frame of this 58-foot bridge was found to be missing on Nov. 11, about a week after the deck boards had been stolen,

For almost two decades, a 58-foot-long, 10-foot-wide and 6-foot-high pedestrian bridge sat idly in an overgrown field in Akron, Ohio. It had been removed from a nearby park for a restoration project, police said.

But early last month, a passerby noticed something was amiss with the structure. The brush around the bridge had been cleared and the deck boards were missing, police said.

A week later, the entire structure was gone.

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