Delaware State Police have charged four cemetery employees with stealing headstone urns and selling them for scrap.
Troopers say a man reported on July 28 that several brass flower urns were missing from the gravesites of his relatives. Detectives learned that urns were being sold for scrap at the Dover Scrap Metal Yard.
Fifty-year-old Ethel Melvin, the cemetery manager; her daughter, 42-year-old Lauri Larlham, and another employee, 39-year-old Shaughn Graves, have all been arrested and charged with desecration, conspiracy and other offenses.
Ethel Melvin's son, 36-year-old Donald Melvin, is wanted for conspiracy, desecration and other offenses. He remains at large.
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