The flags were taken from the town rotary in Carlisle, Massachusetts — which has a population of roughly 5,200 people — during the early hours of Monday, May 27, according to the town’s Facebook page. The flags were replaced mere hours later, local Pride festival organizer Rachel Freed told the local news outlet WCVB.

Over 200 pride flags were stolen from a display in a Massachusetts town outside of Boston just days before a local pride event and the start of Pride Month, according to town officials. The flags were taken from the rotary at the center of Carlisle near the intersection of Lowell Street,

CARLISLE - Investigators in Carlisle are asking neighbors and businesses to check surveillance video and please come forward if they know who destroyed the pride display in the center of town. "Here in the Carlisle community,

Just days before Pride month, police are investigating the theft of hundreds of LGBTQ flags from the town’s center.

More than 200 rainbow flags disappeared overnight from the town of Carlisle Massachusetts on Monday, the Carlisle police department said in a news release. Officials are investigating the apparent mass theft of the LGBTQ+ flags,

Police said they were notified earlier this week more than 200 Pride flags placed in the rotary in the center of the town were stolen overnight.

Police are investigating after about 200 flags celebrating the start of Pride Month were stolen from the town rotary in Carlisle, Massachusetts. Travis Snell, chariman of the Carlisle Select Board, said the flags were stolen during the nighttime hours on Monday.