PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–A 31-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested on July 24 after the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office said he stole 125 bronze vases from a cemetery and sold them as scrap for “quick cash” to buy fentanyl.
According to arrest records, Douglas Deck, Jr. removed more than 125 vases from various burial plots at a St. Petersburg cemetery in mid-July. The vases were attached to concrete headstones at the gravesites and are intended to hold flowers or other ornamental and sometimes sentimental decorations.
