Rhino
10-26-2007, 09:49 AM
Texas Police Arrest Suspect in Vandalism of Marine's Grave
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Texas police arrested a man accused of vandalizing the gravesite of a Marine killed in Iraq to sell parts of floral arrangements left in his memory.
Lance Cpl. Jeremy Burris, 22, of Liberty, Texas, was killed in Iraq on Oct. 8 by an improvised explosive device. After burial services, workers at the Cooke Memorial Cemetery found flags, posters and flowers ripped up at the gravesite....
...Liberty police arrested Wallace DeBlanc Wednesday night on state felony charges of criminal mischief at a place of human burial and felony theft....
...DeBlanc confessed in a statement to police to stealing the flower wire stands from the gravesite to resell them to florists...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305240,00.html
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Texas police arrested a man accused of vandalizing the gravesite of a Marine killed in Iraq to sell parts of floral arrangements left in his memory.
Lance Cpl. Jeremy Burris, 22, of Liberty, Texas, was killed in Iraq on Oct. 8 by an improvised explosive device. After burial services, workers at the Cooke Memorial Cemetery found flags, posters and flowers ripped up at the gravesite....
...Liberty police arrested Wallace DeBlanc Wednesday night on state felony charges of criminal mischief at a place of human burial and felony theft....
...DeBlanc confessed in a statement to police to stealing the flower wire stands from the gravesite to resell them to florists...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305240,00.html