The teen burglars who mistook human remains for cocaine

The teen burglars who mistook human remains for cocaine

A trio of thieving teens who thought they had swiped cocaine from a Missouri home had actually stolen cremains instead.

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)

a thief made off with an entire house in Oregan

a thief made off with an entire house in Oregan

A thief made off with an entire house in Klamath Falls, Oregon, this week in a heist that would make Ocean's Eleven blush.

On Tuesday, the homeowner called the Klamath County Sheriff's Office to report that the home was missing, KOBI reports. Moving this log cabin couldn't have been easy, either. It was on a foundation and definitely wasn't a mobile home.

"[The owner] went to visit his part-time home and between the first time he saw it and a couple of months later, it was gone. I mean can you imagine?" Klamath County Sheriff Frank Skrah told The Washington Post.

Police spent two days searching and finally found the cabin on Thursday, at least a mile away from its foundation. Skrah said there was a legal dispute in which three people were claiming ownership of the home, and one of them had sold it to a fourth person.

"We think that somebody busted out the foundation, jacked it up, put a lowboy [trailer] underneath it and lowered it down on the lowboy and took it," Skrah said.

The 1,200-square-foot cabin wasn't occupied at the time it was swiped.

Deputies reportedly have a list of suspects, but they wouldn't release any more details about the homeowner or the investigation. No charges have been filed.