Via MPD.

The Metropolitan Police Department is looking for a suspect or suspects in the case of the missing elephant tusks.

Yes, “a set of ivory elephant tusks that had been given to the city as a gift from Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1954” went missing from the Wilson Building last year. The crime occurred sometime between August 12 and 27.

A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the recovery of the tusks.

Selassie visited Washington in May of 1954 and was greeted by then President Dwight D. Eisenhower. According to a Washington Post article from that time, the emperor was greeted by more than 30,000 people at National Airport and the White House. A parade was held in his honor. Thirty years later, Selassie was deposed and imprisoned before his death in 1975.