UPDATE: Payne Skatepark To Reopen After Package Found

Payne Skate Park closed skate park after package was believed stolen, but found it was accidentally delivered to police.

Updated 5:15 p.m. Dec. 11 It appears that the missing package full of Christmas gifts was just a wheelie and a grind away from Sarasota Skate Park. The package wasn't stolen, and it turns out the box was accepted by a volunteer at the Sarasota Police Department and was found in a storage room there, The Herald-Tribune reports: Instead, UPS accidentally delivered the package to the Sarasota Police Department across the street from the skate park, where a volunteer signed for it and added the package to the pile of daily deliveries in a storage room, Capt. Paul Sutton said. The skate park is due to reopen Wednesday by 3 p.m., weather cooperating, according to the City of Sarasota. The original report on Patch (below) set off a media frenzy …

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