Police looking for graveyard thieves who stole brass vases


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YAKIMA -- Authorities are looking for three people following the theft of 217 brass vases from headstone markers last week at the West Hills Memorial Park cemetery.

The theft -- amounting to a loss of about $106,500 -- took place overnight Nov. 5 at the cemetery at 11800 Douglas Road, according to a Thursday news release by the Yakima County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies said three people later attempted to sell what looked like destroyed vases for scrap metal to Chicago Junk in Yakima. The three arrived in a white 1982 AMC Concord car, with the Washington license plate 113-YOE.

Authorities ask anybody with information to contact CrimeStoppers at 509-248-9980.



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Posted by FedUpTaxPayer at 11/13/09 08:25AM        Post ID#: #17989

Stealing from the dead and grieving? How pathetically low.

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Posted by BettyWithrow at 11/30/09 08:31PM        Post ID#: #19447

One of these vases was stolen off my mothers grave and one from my brother - 215 other families in Yakima were stolen from. I don't understand why these people haven't been caught. The junkyard gave the sheriff's office a description of the people and car that tried to sell 50 pounds of these broken vases. I was told that a woman also called the sheriff with a address of where the people / vases are. What else is needed?

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