NEW: Charlestown Man Ordered to Serve Vets for Stealing Gravestones
Friday, November 13, 2015
Former Rhode Island Veterans' Memorial Cemetery employee Kevin Maynard, 59, of Charlestown has been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service in the service of veterans as part of his sentence of 12 months' probation for stealing granite gravestones and other items from the cemetery.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William Smith after Maynard pleaded guilty on July 28 to theft of Government property.
The Incident
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTAccording to court documents, over a lengthy period of time, Maynard removed worn or broken grave markers from the cemetery and brought them to his Charlestown residence.
A VA-OIG agent and a Rhode Island State Police detective accompanied Maynard to his home on April 23, where investigators discovered at least 150 veterans' grave markers which were being used as flooring for a shed and two make-shift garages.
According to Government regulations, all Government-furnished headstones/markers/medallions remain the property of the United States Government in perpetuity and that the "destruction, mutilation, defacement, injury, or removal of any movement, gravestone, or other structure within the limits of any national cemetery is prohibited."
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney John McAdams.
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