LA County Raises Rewards After Compton, Carson Cemetery Vandalism

Los Angeles County supervisors are sweetening the pot in the hunt for the thieves who stripped cemeteries in Compton and Carson of bronze plaques and smashed headstones, leaving families staring at bare stone and broken markers. This week, the board renewed and raised reward offers, bumping the payoff in the Woodlawn Celestial Gardens case to $25,000 and hiking the reward tied to Lincoln Memorial Park to $30,000. The move comes roughly two years after the thefts first sent volunteers and relatives scrambling to restore memorials that were never meant to be touched.

According to NBC Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors renewed and increased the offers after investigators made little headway identifying suspects. Anyone with information is urged…..

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