A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city.

"This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons."

The stolen goods included a replica of Homer, along with the remote control he held in his hand. The statue was part of a display at the theater promoting the anticipated film version of the popular cartoon.

Cinema employees discovered the 4-foot-tall statue was missing when they arrived for work Monday morning. Security cameras showed that two men carried the statue out of the mall and into the parking lot, where they placed Homer in the trunk of a car and fled the scene. The rest of the Simpson family - Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie - were safe however.

It took police four days to track down the contraband. "Homer will be reunited with his family soon," Moo Hon Mei, 20th Century Fox's senior marketing director in Malaysia, told the AP.