Two Waukegan men have been charged after they stole brass vases from tombstones and sold them for scrap, according to authorities. Marcos Mendez, 41, of the 3000 block of Illinois Route 120, and ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — It’s about as low as you can go — stealing from graves. A family contacted 10 On Your Side after discovering the vase on their mother’s headstone at Greenlawn cemetery had ...
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office is investigating thefts and trespass violations at St. Ann’s Catholic Cemetery in the town of Dunkirk. The caretaker of the cemetery, Tom Novak, reported several brass ...
REDSTONE TOWNSHIP (KDKA) -- Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayette County has literally thousands of bronze vases adorning the headstones. But that number drops each day as the vases disappear at the ...
The Marshalltown Police Department arrested a man after they said he stole from a local cemetery. Police were called when multiple suspicious items were turned in for scrap at a business. Employees ...
Raleigh County sheriff’s deputies say they are handling one of their “worst” metal theft cases to date after they recovered nearly $90,000 in bronze vases stolen from a local cemetery’s headstones.
AURORA, Colo. — Thieves have been raiding area cemeteries hoping to cash in. Grave robbers are stealing headstone vases from cemeteries in the Denver metro area and are likely selling the metal as ...
A day after the Clay County Sheriff's Office announced it was stymied by a months-long stolen grave vases case, a recycling company led them to some suspects attempting to sell 200 pounds of cut-up ...
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (WLS) -- Hundreds of vases have been stolen off graves in a north suburban cemetery. "It's upsetting, it's disgraceful," said Michelle Tucsek, whose parents' graves were damaged. "My ...
ROSENBERG, Texas (KTRK) -- A man is behind bars after confessing he stole bronze vases from headstones at a Rosenberg cemetery to sell them for their metal. Rolando Trevino was arrested and charged ...
A West Pittston man allegedly stole almost 600 bronze vases with a replacement value of approximately $407,400 from graves in two Back Mountain cemeteries and tried to sell them for scrap. Robert ...
MCHENRY, Ill. (CBS) - Vandals toppled as many as 60 headstones and knocked over stone vases at two cemeteries in McHenry over the Halloween weekend, police said. McHenry police learned of the ...