MASSACHUSETTS
MassLive
By Lindsay Corcoran | lindsay.corcoran@masslive.com
on February 17, 2016
WORCESTER – A Santeria priest has been indicted on nine charges of disinterment of a body in the theft of skeletons from Worcester’s Hope Cemetery last year.
Amador Medina, 32, of 245 Preston St., Apt. 2, Hartford, was indicted by a Worcester County grand jury on Wednesday in thefts from two mausoleum’s last year.
Medina had been arrested and charged in district court last December in connection with the theft of five skeletons from the Houghton-family mausoleum. He was held on $100,000 bail.
Police later discovered an additional three skeletons missing from another mausoleum in the cemetery. The ninth disinterment charge comes from a sixth casket opened in the Houghton-family mausoleum.
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