Light fixture shaped as Nevada goes missing on mountain

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A light fixture designed in the shape of the state of Nevada has gone missing on a Henderson mountain.

The lights, valued at about $1,400, went missing some time between last Saturday and Tuesday, said local attorney David Koch, who placed the lights in April.

“We had gone up on Saturday to turn the heart back to red,” Koch said. “Before Christmas we had turned them to red and green. The next day, Sunday the 27th, it was kind of cloudy and that night the lights didn’t come on. The same thing on Monday, cloudy and rainy and I thought maybe something happened to them. Tuesday was a sunny day. There was plenty of sun for the lights and none of them came on that night.”

Koch hiked the hill shortly afterward and found the light fixture containing a heart around Clark County missing. He had suspected that the Bureau of Land Management took them down, but a BLM spokesperson told Koch on Wednesday that the agency had not touched the lights, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Koch said he would not file a police report, and that if whoever stole the lights would give them back, he would buy them solar lights for their own home, too.

Koch said the federal land management agency had offered him several other places in Nevada where he could put lights up again. He declined their offer, but said that if anyone else is planning something similar, he would help.