The suspect now faces charges of abuse to a corpse.
SAN ANTONIO — In what it acknowledged was a"very strange" incident, the Zavala County Sheriff's Office investigated the theft of human ashes from a cemetery this week,The agency later said it had taken a man into custody, thanks to a tip. He hasn't been identified, but he faces charges of abuse of a corpse after he"admitted to digging up the ashes and removing them."
Few other details were shared about the unusual theft, which happened at Benito Juarez Cemetery in Crystal City, Texas. KENS 5 has brought numerous firsts to South Texas television, including being the first local station with a helicopter, the first with its own Doppler radar and the first to air a local morning news program.
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