Thieves have taken more than 500 bronze vases from grave sites at the Melwood Cemetery in Stone Mountain, upsetting the cemetery’s director as well as the grieving families who have loved ones buried there.
Cemetery director Richard Nyarko told Channel 2 Action News that he’s offering a reward for anyone who can help catch the people who took the flower vases, valued at $200 each.
Nyarko said the thieves are likely taking the vases to local scrap yards where the vases are valued at about $15 each.
“If you’re a business … you’re part of the problem,” he said, condemning the scrap yards who are buying the flower vases.
A family visiting the East Ponce de Leon Avenue grave site first noticed that the vases were stolen, Nyarko told Channel 2 Action News.
“A family came out to put Christmas flowers out,” Nyarko told Channel 2 Action News. “Forget the value of the vase, it is the disturbance of the grave that is what is heartbreaking.”
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