HUNDREDS OF VASES STOLEN FROM GRAVES

HUNDREDS OF VASES STOLEN FROM GRAVES

The top police official and prosecutor expressed disgust Thursday at the desecration of hundreds of gravesites across the Omaha metropolitan area — with a ring of thieves receiving pennies on the dollar for stolen memorial vases sold to area scrapyards.

Thieves nab $100K worth of vases from Omaha, Council Bluffs cemeteries: 'Why would someone do this?'

Eight people allegedly stole hundreds of memorial vases from Omaha and Council Bluffs cemeteries in an attempt to sell them for scrap metal.

Indignity To Dead Body – Douglas STEVENS

(NORFOLK COUNTY, ON) – Further charges have been laid against an individual in connection with an ongoing investigation into thefts from local cemeteries. On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, members of the Norfolk County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested and charged 39-year-old Douglas STEVENS of Oxford County in relation to a theft at the Waterford Greenwood Cemetery. The following day, investigators with the Norfolk County OPP Crime Unit execu…

Hundreds of Memorial Vases Stolen from Cemeteries in Council Bluffs and Omaha

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