A three-and-a-half-foot tall, 120-pound statue of “Dennis the Menace” was recovered from a canal in Monterey County, California, local officials announced Wednesday.

The statue had been missing from the Dennis the Menace Playground in the city of Monterey’s El Estero Park since it was stolen in mid-August 2022.

An anonymous tipster informed the Monterey Police Department of its location in a canal near a lake in Seaside, California, two miles away from the park, according t …