Unbelievable :( :( :(

It isn't every Shabbat/Sabbath morning that one walks into synagogue and encounters police officers.  The bad news--in the middle of the night on Shabbat, someone got into our Holy Ark/Aron Kodesh (a "bookshelf" with doors, in which the Torah scrolls are stored for reading during services) and stole several silver yads/pointers and decorative breastplates worth thousands of dollars.  (The chief Shabbos Goy/custodian, an employee of our shul for roughly two decades, must have had a heart attack when he unlocked the Ark doors and saw that the items were missing.)  The good news--the thief was caught on a security camera and was arrested before the Shabbat morning services had even ended, and the silver items were insured.  Still, it's pretty unnerving to know that our shul was ripped off, all the more so since the thief is someone whom the congregants know.