sentences:  The site was looted during the 1970s, either by local farmers or by locals from Sayaxché.In 1982 several looters were caught in the act of looting Structure 44 in Group B and were imprisoned for a short time.Looters' trenches have mostly been sunk into the summits of the site's pyramids and many parts of the hieroglyphic stairway were removed to private collections in Guatemala City.