According to the statues posted on the INPCRP website: IC 35-43-1-2.1 Cemetery mischief Sec. 2.1. (a) This section does not apply to the following: (1) A person who acts in a proper and acceptable manner as authorized by IC 14-21 other than a person who disturbs the earth for an agricultural purpose under the exemption to IC 14-21 that is provided in IC 14-21-1-24. (2) A person who acts in a proper and acceptable manner as authorized by IC 23-14. (b) A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally: (1) damages a cemetery, a burial ground (as defined in IC 14-21-1-3), or a facility used for memorializing the dead; (2) damages the grounds owned or rented by a cemetery or facility used for memorializing the dead; or (3) disturbs, defaces, or damages a cemetery monument, grave marker, grave artifact, grave ornamentation, or cemetery enclosure; commits cemetery mischief, a Class A misdemeanor. However, the offense is a Class D felony if the pecuniary loss is at least two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). As added by P.L.100-1999, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.177-2001, SEC.4. Guess it would depend on what the punishment is for a Class D felony. Rhonda Stoffer Head of Indiana History and Genealogy Services Marion Public Library -----Original Message----- From: Sue Silver [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [INPCRP] photo of Pleasant Grove near Warsaw in Kosciusko County Doesn't the value of the individual monuments elevate a crime like this from misdemeanor to felony? At what dollar amount of damage might this kick into being a felony? In California, it's something like $2500 or $3500 dollars. In addition to cemetery vandalism, this should also be pursued as a crime against PROPERTY with the value of the damaged property determining if it is charged as a misdemeanor or a felony. The combined total value (in today's dollars to repair/replace) of the damaged items PLUS the cost to reset, should take it to a felony category. Or am I wrongheaded? Sue Silver California ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: [INPCRP] photo of Pleasant Grove near Warsaw in Kosciusko County > > http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/local/9234864.htm > > In the article, the cemetery trustee is asking for help--he says he doesn't > know where to turn and is also frustrated with it being just a misdemeanor > if someone is caught. Can someone with more experience than me make contact > with him--he seems to be at a loss, and rightly so. > > Gene Andert -the gen web coordinator for Kosciusko County provided us with > this article. I have sent him an e-mail expressing gratitude > > Larry Leahy > Muncie -Delaware County > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== This list is for discussion of topics related to the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project only. Please do not send genealogical queries through this list. The surname and geographic Mailing Lists on Rootsweb at http://lists.rootsweb.com are a better venue. Thank you.

the first source i saw said that a class d felony carried up to three years and a 10k fine. This is from only one source and I don't know Indiana law to know how this would apply to juveniles -if that is the case here??? I am mailing a letter tomorrow to Mr. Doyle Munson, the Secretary-Treasurer of Pleasant Grove Cemetery association stating we have no money but we do have a lot of hopeful support and ideas for he and his commission there just east of Warsaw which is south of South Bend and West of Ft Wayne. His address is Mr. Doyle Munson, 2120 E 375 S, Warsaw, IN 46580-8746. His telephone number is 574-267-4154. He doesn't live very far from this very pretty cemetery flanked by corn fields, cows and across the street from an old but active church in a pretty rural rolling hill Indiana setting. It is a pretty place and I believe has a lot of good things already going for it--it is well groomed but does have a good bit of very old markers which with some good education could be restored by more than likely local volunteers and maybe a few traveling INPCRP advisers. Could some of y'all contact him and extend our sympathies and support as well? It would be good to know what they could use from us and it would be good for us i think to see this matter through and for us to follow what turns up on the criminal aspect of this case as well. Larry Leahy Muncie