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Thieves ransack St. Regis cemetery storage shed

by MONTE TURNER
Mineral Independent | January 3, 2024 12:00 AM

The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office is conducting additional surveillance on Montana 135 from the St. Regis flashing light intersection to the Peninsula turnoff, but not necessarily for speeders.

Theft, and the final straw for St. Regis Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jerry Dockter, was the cemetery. 

“All of the lawn stuff. Gas cans. Chains. The straps to lower caskets into the ground were even taken. Why? The metal detector. They kicked the door in on the storage shed and helped themselves,” he fumed. “What kind of a low life do you have to be to break into the cemetery and steal all of their stuff?” 

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