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 ...

ROSENBERG, Texas (KTRK) -- A registered sex offender from Brookshire confessed to stealing from gravesites to resell precious metal from vases that are normally attached to headstones, Rosenberg ...

A GYPSY family have won their battle with council chiefs after being banned from installing a double headstone. David Loveridge, 80, said he "will sleep tonight" knowing he can now be buried next to ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — Historic burial grounds in San Antonio were desecrated by vandals. In at least one part of San Fernando Cemetery #2, instead of a brass vase adorning each headstone, there's an empty ...

The owner of Burr Oak Cemetery acknowledges the loss of dozens of copper vases from another cemetery property, but said it's not a "huge priority" for them to rectify the situation. Between 50 and 100 ...

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.

Disappearing flower vases in cemeteries are the handiwork of thieves hoping to make a quick buck. While reports of copper wire theft are commonplace in the Valley, the macabre trend toward stealing ...