Meth bust finds MORE Book of Mormon "firsts"

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Article Last Updated: 4/18/2006 11:33 AM


Update: Drug bust in Midvale turns up rare Mormon scriptures

By Justin Hill
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune

Police on Monday recovered two rare copies of the Book of Mormon
believed to have been stolen last fall from a Mormon Institute of Religion.
SWAT teams from Murray and Midvale, conducting a routine drug
raid, searched a home in the 400 East block of Larchwood Drive (6770 South)
in Midvale about 9:30 p.m., according to a Midvale police press release.
In addition to finding methamphetamine, officers located an 1840
Nauvoo edition of the Book of Mormon and an 1841 Liverpool edition, valued
at $35,000 and $25,000, respectively.
The books were believed to have been stolen in late October or
early November from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Institute of Religion on the U. campus.
Also recovered in Monday's raid were two issues of the Salt Lake
Herald newspaper from the late 1800s. It is unknown whether those newspapers
had been stolen.
Assisting in Monday's raid were narcotics detectives from West
Jordan and Taylorsville police departments.
So far, Monday's raid appears to be unrelated to last week's
recovery in Magna of 11 rare copies of the Book of Mormon believed to have
been stolen from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Memorial Museum in Salt Lake
City.