US EditionAffidavit: Man stole historic 800-pound cannon for drug money
- Gordon Pierce III, a 38-year-old resident of Wichita, was charged with taking a historically significant 800-pound cannon from Central Riverside Park in early April 2025.
- Pierce said he stole the cannon to pay off a $20,000 drug debt after his meth dealer threatened to harm him and his family.
- Pierce enlisted a homeless man’s help with meth as payment to chain the cannon, dragged it with his SUV despite repeated chain failures, then cut it into pieces.
- The cannon, cast in Seville, Spain in 1794 and captured in 1898, is valued over $100,000, with damage to its granite pedestal estimated at about $10,000.
- Pierce remains jailed on a $200,000 bond, charged with felony theft, criminal damage, and drug possession, while police continue investigating the case.
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Desperate Kansas man arrested for stealing 800-pound cannon from Spanish American War to settle drug debt
A low-level drug dealer stole an 800-pound cannon that was used in the Spanish American War from a Kansas park last week to settle a debt with his deranged boss, who was threatening to murder him and his family,
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Affidavit: Man stole, heavily damaged ‘priceless’ war cannon over $20K meth debt
A Wichita man accused of stealing and significantly damaging a priceless artifact from Central Riverside Park last month told police that he committed the crime to pay off a drug debt after he was robbed of $20,000 worth of methamphetamine.
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