This is outrageous. “… We’re appalled.” A total of 14 urns are missing from the Mission Boulevard cemetery, one of which held the ashes of a person who was interred 12 years ago, Bryant said.

They are offering a $1,000 reward for the urn's return with no questions asked. The urn is 8.5" x 5.5" x 5.5", made of bronze, and has a cross on the lower right front of it.

Investigators said about half the urns contained cremated human remains, which officers said were removed before the urns were sold to a local scrap yard. Those ashes have been found and identified.

Don Catchen, owner of Cincinnati Cremation Co., said that three of 20 stolen bronze urns had contained the ashes of deceased people. Those ashes have been found and identified.

His ashes were kept in a bronze urn in the family’s "butsudan" (small Japanese Buddhist wooden shrine) in the living room of her three-bedroom home at Date and Mahiai streets near ‘Iolani School.

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The bronze plaques and ashes have been removed in case the thieves come back. Police say the old brewery has become a magnet for break ins since it closed in 2003.

He admitted he stole bronze urns that stored ashes of cremated bodies, sold the urns for scrap and used the money on drugs. Smith’s crimes were Ohio’s lowest-level felonies.

The ashes had been dumped from their original urns, he said. "In 49 years of being a funeral director, this is one of the most devastating things that's ever occurred to me," he said.