The Lower Moreland Police Department announced today that Michael V. Evangelist Jr., 37, was delivered to their station yesterday to face charges of theft, burglary, and institutional vandalism.
Following a months-long investigation, police say Evangelist was behind the thefts of mausoleum doors in Cheltenham, Abington, Lower Moreland and Springfield. He was arrested in September.
Lower Moreland police received a report of a theft of two bronze mausoleum doors valued at approximately $31,500 from a mausoleum at Forest Hills Cemetery in Huntingdon Valley on February 3. An investigation revealed that the doors had been removed by unscrewing the door hinges from the frame, police said…