Police said three men were trying to sell hundreds of stolen flower vases to a scrap metal facility. The family's story and the trap they set for the cemetery thieves, only on 13.
Investigators said the thieves might have gotten away with more if not for one family's efforts at the Restwood Funeral Home in Clute, Texas.Police in Clute say they have arrested three men who were stealing from a cemetery and then trying to sell the stolen goods to a scrap metal facility."The lengths that my family will go is very far to get what we feel is right for my dad. My dad was my favorite person in the world," one woman said.
ABC13 is concealing the woman's identity. She's afraid of becoming a target because of what she did next. After her father's graveside vase was stolen twice at the Restwood Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Clute, she and her family attached a GPS tracker to the new vase and waited.Sure enough, it was stolen soon, and police tracked it to a home about 45 minutes away in Brazoria.Vases were burning inside, and other crushed and melted vases were in a large cooler next to it.Court documents show a man had been to a scrap metal facility in nearby Sweeny, Texas, and tried to sell the vases.
"They did not accept the vases, and that's when they started breaking them and trying to sell them for parts," Clute police Chief James Fitch explained."We feel very proud that it worked out the way that it did, and the people were finally caught because that's just disgusting," the woman said. "For the people who just don't have any sort of regard to the families that already lost their loved ones.
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