Police: Delaware Cemetery Workers Stole Headstone Urns, Sold To Scrap Yard

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DOVER, Del. (CBS) --- Four workers at a Delaware cemetery are charged with stealing brass urns and selling them for scrap.

Ethel Melvin, her son Donald, her daughter Lauri Larlham, and another employee, Shaughn Graves, work at Sharon Hill Memorial Park near Dover.

Delaware State Police say the four stole several brass flower urns from plots and then sold them to a Dover scrap metal yard.

Police are looking for Donald Melvin, the other three are out on bail.