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Disabled vet's lost wheelchair is found

Christopher Levi, inside his Holbrook home with his

Photo credit: James Carbone | Christopher Levi, inside his Holbrook home with his dog, Marley. Levi, a war veteran, had his wheelchair stolen from in front of his Holbrook home. (Jan. 20, 2012)

A Holbrook veteran's missing custom wheelchair, decorated with an embroidered Purple Heart, has been recovered.

Suffolk police said the $3,000 aluminum wheelchair was discovered Thursday in a wooded area -- dirty but intact.

The wheelchair, built for Christopher Levi, 28, after he lost both legs in a 2008 roadside bombing in Iraq, was taken a week ago from outside his Mollie Boulevard...

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