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Pa. Man Charged In Theft Of Grave Stone

A Pennsylvania man has been jailed after a stolen grave stone was recovered last week.

Chautauqua County sheriff’s deputies charged 58-year-old Edwin L. Stancliff with petit larceny and first-degree cemetery desecration, a class E felony in New York. Deputies had been looking into the theft of the grave stone from the St. Mathias Cemetery in the town of French Creek.

The grave stone was recovered in Erie, Pa., with the assistance of the Pennsylvania State Police.

Stancliff turned himself into the Sheriff’s Office on Monday. He was taken to Chautauqua County Jail and held for the Centralized Arraignment Program.

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