Cemetery offers reward for stolen vases

Spring Lake, N.C. — River View Memorial Gardens in Spring Lake is offering a reward for clues in the case of some stolen vases.

Owner Ray Adcock is joining with some family members of the deceased to offer $1,500 for information about who might have taken the vases from headstones there.

Adcock said about 70 of the vases, valued at $200 each, were removed from the cemetery last week.

Police suspect the vases were taken for their resale value as scrap metal.