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102 Urns Stolen From Indy Cemetery

Police Believe Thieves Want To Sell Metal

POSTED: 8:36 pm EST November 14, 2007

At least 102 buried urns were stolen from a west-side Indianapolis cemetery in the past week, perhaps so the thief or thieves could sell the metal, police said.

The urns were taken from the ground at Floral Park Cemetery, upsetting families and caretakers, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

"It is a very personal matter and very disturbing -- emotional -- for our families that come back to the gravesite," cemetery manager Cinnamon Caughlan said Wednesday.

The cemetery said it has warned area scrap yards that someone might try to sell the urns to them.

Indianapolis police said they would patrol the cemetery to try to prevent more urn thefts. No arrests have been made in the case.

"The two kinds of thieves people despise the most are ones that would steal from their family or steal from a graveyard. I think that just disgusts people to no end," Indianapolis police Lt. Steve Watts said.

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