Talk about needing a theft class. Three residents from Pineville, Louisiana face 612 counts of theft relating to their pillaging of a cemetery. The majority of items stolen were vases.

Kimberly Deville, 35, Billy Johnson, 19, and Deborah Price, 55 were each charged this week with 612 counts of theft from a religious building, cemetery or graveyard and criminal conspiracy in connection with the theft of vases from Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball.

The stolen vases are ones that hold flowers and are placed at gravesites.

Deville had been previously arrested on other charges in the case before being arrested again on the hundreds of new charges. She was charged with five counts of possession of stolen goods, offenses punishable by up to five years in prison.

With the more than 600 charges against them, the three suspects have had their bonds set at $300,500 each. Looks like they will be spending plenty of time in the pokey.

Fitzgerald and Deville were selling the vases to local scrap yards for profit. When Deville was arrested the first time, detectives found 22 vases in his vehicle, and those vases had been cut into pieces.

The value of the vases is estimated at $575 each but some cost more than $1,000 each. The total value of the stolen vases has been estimated at more than $250,000.

Do you believe in karma? If so I would not want the negative blowback from stealing from a cemetery. These three are in need of serious counseling and need a Louisiana theft class in addition to the jail time.

Source: http://www.thetowntalk.com