UPPER MORELAND — A New York man is accused of stealing an urn containing the ashes of an Upper Moreland Township woman’s deceased daughter and holding them for ransom for the $8,000 that he claimed the woman owed him.
Nuo Chen, 30, of the 4300 block of 195th Street, Flushing, N.Y., faces felony charges of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and theft by extortion in connection with the alleged plot.
During a bail review hearing this week in Montgomery County Court, Judge Steven T. O’Neill kept intact a lower court judge’s earlier decision to set Chen’s bail at $50,000 cash…