The teen burglars who mistook human remains for cocaine
Devin M. Gesell, 17, was being held on $10,000 bond and will be tried as an adult on charges of second-degree burglary and felony stealing. His two unnamed juvenile accomplices were referred to family court, and their status is currently unknown.
Various items were taken from a house in St. Charles County in late November 2014. Gesell told investigators that he served as a lookout while the other suspects stole jewelry, cash electronics, prescription drugs and the ashes.
“All my jewelry was gone, all my son's electronics, I had my father's ashes – they were sitting on the dresser,” one of the victims, Deborah Matthews, said. “They took my dad's ashes.”
Once the teens were back in the car with the loot, they tasted the ashes and determined what they had wasn't cocaine. The remains were the thrown from a car window and were never recovered.
The three were acquaintances of the family who lived at the home. They planned the burglary after seeing a post on Facebook that said the family was going to be out of town. (Source | Photo)
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