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Man arrested for stealing jewelry from corpse PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 23 April 2006
April 16, 2006

CORPUS CHRISTI - A local man faces charges of stealing jewelry from a corpse. Police said Abel Luna, 34, was working at a local funeral home when the theft occurred.

Investigators said before the deceased man was cremated, his family asked for his jewelry, when it could not be located the family called police.

Police have decided not to release the name of the funeral home, because they said the owners had nothing to do with the crime and Luna was fired after the incident. When the jewelry was reported missing, police first started checking area pawn shops.

The jewelry turned up at a pawn shop in the 3200 block of Ayers when police traced the jewelry, it traced back to Luna. After police talked with him they said he admitted to the crime. 6 News asked the investigators if Luna gave a reason why he did it. Police said he just wanted to something of value.

Despite the fact that the owner of the jewelry is deceased, the case was handled like any other theft case.

"Those things are very sensitive. People have a very close attachment to people's belongings. Certain things mean a lot to some people," said CCPD Capt. John Houston. "To have someone come in and take them or just to think they can steal them and pawn them to get a couple of bucks for it to do to something. We have to consider just like the person is alive and had their stuff stolen. There's no difference. They're still a victim."

Police said they are in the process of getting the jewelry back to the deceased man's family. They live in New Jersey so it will take a little time. As for the suspect, he could face jail time for this crime. Theft from a corpse is a state jail felony.


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