QUINCY, Mass. (AP) – The Patriot Ledger is making good on its offer of a $1,000 reward for information on the theft of a life-sized baby Jesus figure.

The statue was recovered Friday morning, nearly a week after it was stolen from a Nativity scene. The newspaper said the reward will be split between Steve MacDonald, the retired assistant Quincy harbormaster who found it on the banks of the Town River, and an anonymous source who told the newspaper where to find it.

A police diver and firefighters searched the river Friday morning, but MacDonald rowed out on his own in a small boat and found the Jesus.

Police said the 20-inch statue was stolen last weekend from a Nativity scene at a cemetery adjacent to Quincy’s city hall. Other figures in the display are screwed to the manger’s base, and the fiberglass Jesus was glued to its crib to deter vandals.

No arrests had been made, but police said the investigation was continuing.