Two Charged With Stealing Cemetery Statues
The statues were recovered Wednesday.
Johnathon Leveille (left) and Donald Petruzzi are charged with stealing bronze statues from a Waterbury cemetery.
Police have made a second arrest in connection to two bronze statues stolen from Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury.
Donald Petruzzi, 22, was arrested Friday, just a day after police arrested 26-year-old Jonathon Leveille.
Police recovered the statues at an out-of-town scrapyard Wednesday.
A 700-pound bronze figure depicting death was damaged but intact, but the smaller statue that was part of a headstone was destroyed beyond repair.
The scrapyard called police on Wednesday morning after seeing media reports and realized that they had bought stolen property.
Petruzzi and Leveille were both charged with first-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny, criminal mischief, interference with a cemetery or burial ground and unlawful sale of gravestones.
Petruzzi was being held on $35,000 bond Friday night and was scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Leveille was in court Friday.
Posted Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 - 3:03 PM EST
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