Police seek tips on theft at cemetery

Nevada Daily Mail

The Nevada Police Department continue in their investigation into a robbery at the Deepwood Cemetery and seek assistance from the public, with a reward being offered by the Deepwood Cemetery association for information leading to a conviction.

A concerned individual said the theft of 125 feet of 3-foot decorative wrought iron fence was noticed earlier this week by someone who came to tend to the landscaping. The filigree fence and its gate was unbolted and removed, possibly over the previous weekend. The care taken in removing it seems to signify it had been planned.

The fence around a family plot in the Deepwood Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Nevada, was probaboy constructed not long after the cemetery was founded in 1869, making the fence probably more than 125 years old. None of the family members of those buried in that lot remain according to the same individual, who wished to be unnamed.

The fence at the cemetery, which receives funding solely from donations, was not insured and the same individual is concerned it was taken in order to receive money for the iron as scrap or because of its own historical value.

Any residents with information can contact the police department, who are also looking into contacting scrapyards that might have received word of the stolen fence.