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The owner of an American flower shop has been arrested for stealing flowers over the course of several months from graves at a nearby cemetery which she may then have sold through her business. Police installed CCTV cameras in the cemetery of First Reformed Church Cemetery in Pompton Plains, New Jersey after two plants disappeared from the mausoleum and replacement plants were stolen two days later. They eventually caught a 59-year-old woman in a minivan taking the plants, who officers recognised as an ex-police dispatcher and flower shop owner. Lynda Wingate has since been charged with the disorderly person’s offence of theft of moveable property.
Local police officer Capt. Christopher DePuyt said Wingate claimed she was cleaning up old flowers from graves of people she knew, but he says that isn’t the case, according to The Associated Press.
Police haven’t said whether Wingate had resold the other flowers or if any of the previously stolen ones had been recovered.
“It’s not the crime of the century. It’s a minor crime, but one that shocks the conscience, and it won’t be tolerated,” DePuyt said.
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