{"id":43716,"date":"2019-07-05T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43716"},"modified":"2019-07-05T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:15:52","slug":"grave-robber-man-wanted-after-stealing-from-a-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/grave-robber-man-wanted-after-stealing-from-a-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave robber: Man wanted after stealing from a cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hornoung.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hornoung.png 629w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hornoung-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By SW Florida Crime Stoppers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;Punta Gorda man is&nbsp;wanted for failing to show up\nfor parole after he stole from&nbsp;a cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detectives said 40-year-old Edward John Hornung robbed\ngraves in a Lehigh Acres cemetery in 2008. He collected brass flower vases from\n55 graves from the Lee Memorial Park Funeral Home on State Road 82. They were\nvalued at close to $6,000, but he sold them for pennies on the dollar at a\nlocal scrap metal shop,&nbsp;according to SWFL Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornung went to prison for that crime and was released in\nMarch 2018.&nbsp;He was put on&nbsp;probation until 2024 but violated the\nterms&nbsp;and is now wanted on more than a dozen counts of trafficking stolen\nproperty&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the grave site thefts, Hornung has also been\nbooked for burglary, larceny theft and dealing in stolen property. He\u2019s been\njailed in both Lee and Charlotte Counties. His last known address was in Punta\nGorda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any information regarding the location of Edward\nHornung and want to report what you know anonymously, contact Crime Stoppers\nvia phone at 1-800-780-TIPS, on the P3Tips mobile app or on their&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/%20www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SW Florida Crime Stoppers A&nbsp;Punta Gorda man is&nbsp;wanted for failing to show up for parole after he stole from&nbsp;a cemetery. Detectives said 40-year-old Edward John Hornung robbed graves in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}