Over $18K Worth Of Flower Vases Stolen From Cemetery: Darien Police

Darien CT

17 May, 2022

2:48 PM

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DARIEN, CT — Police said approximately $18,800 worth of flower vases were stolen from St. John's Cemetery last week. On May 10 around 3:15 p.m., officers responded to the cemetery on Camp Avenue on a report of a larceny from the cemetery's mausoleum. The woman who reported the theft said that a flower vase had been missing from one of the plots inside the mausoleum. "[The] complainant stated that upon further investigation they discovered that 47 small flower vases had been stolen from the first and second level memorials of the mausoleum," police said in a news release. The vases were described as cone shaped and made of bronze. Police said they're valued at $400 each.