Whoever has been taking the figurines has left notes behind saying "Jesus never graduated from high school" and signed "The Opiates," the New York Daily News reported Friday.

Police found two of the statues at Suffern, N.Y., High School on Christmas Day and four more on Wednesday at North Rockland High School in Haverstraw, N.Y. All the thefts have taken place in the two towns.

Craig Long, a police detective in Suffern, said similar thefts, all involving Jesus figures, have been taking place for months.

"We don't have any suspects. It could be a gang of high school kids," he tolf the Daily News. "It's not like stealing a lawn ornament during Halloween, because this cuts to the heart of people. They're celebrating the birth of Jesus and its very hurtful. In the grand scheme of things it's not a major crime, but it's a hurtful crime."