Grave robbers steal priceless Mesa statue

Sep. 30—Police are searching for heartless thieves who stole a widower's final tribune to his dead wife of 52 years: a custom-made bronze statue on her grave in a Mesa cemetery. "We are devastated" by the Sept. 17 theft of the $20,000 statue and several vases Sept. 17 from a grave at Mountain View Funeral Home and Cemetery, a mortuary spokeswoman said. "We are determined to get this thing ...