Newark Police are looking for the suspect/s who committed a theft inside a historic Newark cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
According to preliminary reports, police were called to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery located in the 300 block of Broadway at around 3 p.m. after receiving reports of possible bodies missing from a mausoleum inside the graveyard.
Newark Police officials say officers arrived to find that thieves did not make off with bodies but vandalized the outside of a mausoleum and stole brass fixtures.
Officers around the city were alerted to stay on the lookout for possible suspects lurking around other cemeteries in Newark.
According to published reports, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery was the vision of Horace Baldwin in 1843, a jewelry maker who envisioned a place of beauty surrounded with everything that can fill the heart with tender and respectful emotions. The first burial was Elizabeth Jacquez 54, on July 1, 1844. The fifty-foot gate designed by noted architect, Thomas Stent built of local brownstone in 1877.
The cemetery boasts some of the best funeral sculptures ranging from simple graves to elaborate mausoleums designed in architectural styles ranging from Romanesque and Egyptian Revival to Baroque, Victorian and Art Deco, which never cease to inspire emotion and creativity of early Newarkers.
The suspect remains at-large.
**INFORMATION CREDIT:**http://mtphistoriccemetery.org/history