Sculptor Aaron Dysart of St. Paul installs a statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald on Sept. 25, 2006, at the former site of St. Paul Academy, the private school Fitzgerald attended for three years and where he published his first work of fiction.

A St. Paul man has been arrested and charged for the theft of a bronze statue of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald two weeks ago. The statue of the Minnesota native sat outside his former school building on Dale Street.

St. Paul police SWAT officers carried out a search warrant on McLean Avenue near Johnson Parkway in St. Paul on Thursday and arrested Dustan Charles Schmitt, 37, at his residence.