LOWER BURRELL, Pa. (AP) - Police say three people have been charged with stealing more than 100 bronze vases from a Pittsburgh area cemetery.
Authorities say 27-year-old Daniel Scott Toy of Kittanning, 28-year-old Brandi Jo Verner of Vandergrift, and 20-year-old Zechariah Berger of Columbia are facing charges of theft and receiving stolen property.
The vases, worth about $750 each, were allegedly taken from Greenwood Cemetery in March and April and then sold to a scrap yard in order to buy heroin. An employee of the scrapyard alerted police.
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Police estimated the total value of the missing vases at about $89,000.
Toy and Verner are in jail, unable to post $50,000 bond. Police say Berger will be charged upon release from drug rehabilitation.
No attorneys were listed on court papers.
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