Park Police Recover Large Quantity of Bronze Vases at the Camden Boat Launch - Match Those Stolen from Local Cemeteries

Via a May 25 email from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board:

Park Police Recover Large Quantity of Bronze Vases Matching Those Stolen from Local Cemeteries

At approximately 8:45 p.m. Thursday, two park users reported a number of large suspicious containers at the Camden boat launch in North Mississippi Regional Park.

Minneapolis Park Police Officers responded to the scene and identified the contents of the containers as a large quantity of bronze vases matching the description of the vases recently stolen from Washburn-McReavy’s Glen Haven Cemetery in Crystal and Crystal Lake Cemetery in north Minneapolis, as well as from Gethsemane Cemetery in New Hope. The containers and their contents have been sent to the Minneapolis Crime Lab for identification and processing.