Three bronze grave markers were stolen and two others were uprooted this week from the cemetery grounds at the Grand View Memorial Park.
A volunteer reported on Wednesday morning that someone had cut open a padlock on the cemetery’s main gate in the 1300 block of Glenwood Road and entered the facility, according to Glendale police. The break-in occurred sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, police said.
At first, the volunteer told police that while the front gate was open, nothing inside the cemetery appeared to have been tampered with or damaged.
Hours later, she called police again to report that three bronze grave markers, which she valued at approximately $2,000 each, had been stolen.
The volunteer also noticed that another two bronze grave markers had been displaced.
Attorney David Baum, who represents the cemetery’s operator, Moshe Goldsman, said he had no additional information about the break-in and stolen grave markers.
