El Monte police officers Monday recovered a stolen airplane.

“Our graveyard shift patrol team responded to the San Gabriel Valley Airport to do a location check and located the stolen plane,” according to a social media post Monday morning by the El Monte Police Department.

The plane had been stolen from an airport in La Verne sometime early Monday.

El Monte police reported that area law enforcement agencies were alerted to be on the lookout for the stolen plane.

A photo that accompanied the police department’s post on X showed a striped Cessna aircraft.

Soon after the alert went out, El Monte police officers went to San Gabriel Valley Airport and located the plane.

The aircraft was recovered, but no suspect information was immediately available, an El Monte PD watch commander said.

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