{"id":224332,"date":"2026-03-17T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:35:08","slug":"rewards-increased-to-catch-cemetery-vandals-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224332\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewards increased to catch cemetery vandals \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years after thieves stole hundreds of bronze name plaques from cemeteries in the Compton and Carson area, still no suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n

With no progress in the investigation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday renewed and increased reward offers<\/a> for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.<\/p>\n

In January 20205, vandals struck Lincoln Memorial Park in Carson<\/a> and Woodlawn Celestial Gardens cemetery in Compton, ripping off hundreds of bronze name plates off the mausoleum.<\/p>\n

At the Carson cemetery, where thousads of African American veterans were laid to rest, a 1944 bronze plaque dedicated by heavyweight champion Joe Louis to honor the World War II Black soldiers buried at the cemetery was stolen.<\/p>\n

The thieves also attempted to steal the 1934 Abraham Lincoln bust statue.<\/p>\n

Damage at the Carson cemetery was estimated to be more than $2 million, according to Supervisor Holly Mitchell, who requested the renewal of the reward.<\/p>\n

The reward to catch the vandals behind the Carson cemetery heist has been increased from $25,000 to $30,000.<\/p>\n

Compton’s Woodlawn Celestial Gardens cemetery, one of the oldest operating cemesteries in LA County, was also targeted by vandals, leaving behind hundreds of thousand dollars in damage.<\/p>\n

The previous reward offer in the Woodlawn case was $20,000, but the board on Tuesday increased it to $25,000.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the vandalism was urged to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years after thieves stole hundreds of bronze name plaques from cemeteries in the Compton and Carson area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16844,1352,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-224332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-carson","tag-compton","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}