Chicago
police arrested two men accused of stealing 89 metal funeral urns and a
metal funeral plaque they allegedly planned to sell as scrap. Police
said the men were arrested at 8 a.m. yesterday after a 911 caller
reported a burglary in progress at a three-floor apartment building on
the city’s South Side. Officers arrived to find the men loading the urns
and the plaque, which had been defaced to obscure its inscription, into
an SUV parked behind the building. Officials said the urns and plaque
would have fetched $8,900 to $44,500 from a metal recycler. Charges
against the men are pending and investigators are working to determine
from where the items were stolen.
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