Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office responded at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday to a break-in alarm at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals on Groveland Drive, where they discovered a broken window leading into the building and footprints heading south from the museum.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies immediately set up containment in the area and used a K9 track to try and locate the suspect, but he was able to escape.

Deputies and museum staff searched the museum and found “a significant theft from a large display case containing numerous gold items,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a news release.

The sheriff’s office said the total value of the missing items is not being released at this time.

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The suspect was captured in security footage at the museum, according to deputies.

He is described as an average-built adult White male wearing jeans and a jacket.

The incident remains under investigation.