Pets Dumped In Landfill In $650K Pennsylvania Cremation Scheme; Owner Pleads Guilty
Thousands of grieving Pennsylvania pet owners paid for cremations and burials, but many of their animals were dumped in a landfill and replaced with ashes from unknown animals — a scheme the business owner has now admitted to, authorities announced Thursday, Oct. 22.
Patrick Vereb Sr., 72, owner of Pittsburgh-based Eternity Pet Memorial, pleaded guilty to all charges involving the theft of more than $650,000 from customers between 2021 and 2024, according to Attorney General Dave Sunday.
His bail was revoked Thursday, and he was committed to prison.
More than 6,500 victims across Allegheny…
DC Church Burglars Apparently Liked What They Saw The First Time, Came Back For Seconds (Video)
They apparently liked what they saw the first time.
A group of suspected burglars made a return trip to a DC church, where surveillance cameras captured three people police now want to identify after musical instruments, microphones, and cameras disappeared.
The trouble began late Wednesday, Sept. 30, at a church on the 1700 block of 11th Street NW, where someone forced open a rear door around 10:15 p.m.
By 6:40 p.m. the following evening, one of the people allegedly involved in the first break-in was back, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
This time, there was company.
In…
Three Men, Three Crime Scenes, One Bloody Day As Murders Rock One Maryland County: Police
It was a deadly day in Maryland.
Three men were killed in separate incidents across Prince George's County on Thursday, Oct. 29, including two whose bodies were discovered just an hour apart, leaving detectives investigating a stabbing, a shooting, and a third death in a wooded park.
The violence began before sunrise in College Park, where officers responding to a stabbing at approximately 4:15 a.m. found 26-year-old Jose Edin Hernandez Vasquez critically injured inside a residence in the 9900 block of 51st Terrace.
Despite efforts to save him, Hernandez Vasquez, who lived in College Park,…
