The Sand Mountain Reporter
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An unemployed Albertville woman has been accused of stealing bronze vases from graves and selling them to a local scrapyard.
Assistant Police Chief Jamie Smith says 30-year-old Laura McDill has been charged with theft of property and desecration of a burial ground. Her bond was set at $60,000. A phone listing for McDill could not be located.
Smith told The Sand Mountain Reporter that 11 urns were reported stolen from Marshall Memorial Gardens on July 18.
An officer who pulled over McDill for a traffic stop noticed an urn in her vehicle. Smith says that McDill confessed to stealing the urns and selling them to a scrapyard for $79 each. Detectives were able to recover those urns, but Smith says that more have gone missing.
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Information from: The Sand Mountain Reporter, http://www.sandmountainreporter.com/
Assistant Police Chief Jamie Smith says 30-year-old Laura McDill has been charged with theft of property and desecration of a burial ground. Her bond was set at $60,000. A phone listing for McDill could not be located.
Smith told The Sand Mountain Reporter that 11 urns were reported stolen from Marshall Memorial Gardens on July 18.
An officer who pulled over McDill for a traffic stop noticed an urn in her vehicle. Smith says that McDill confessed to stealing the urns and selling them to a scrapyard for $79 each. Detectives were able to recover those urns, but Smith says that more have gone missing.
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Information from: The Sand Mountain Reporter, http://www.sandmountainreporter.com/
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