Someone stole 60 brass vases from two Brooklyn Park cemeteries, took them to a Baltimore County recycling center and exchanged them for cash. The vases, worth $60 each, were returned to Holy Cross and Cedar Hill cemeteries Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The thefts were discovered about 2 p.m. Wednesday after a manager at the Maryland Recycling Co. in Owings Mills called Carol M. McCain, manager of Holy Cross Cemetery in the 6100 block of Ritchie Highway. The caller wanted to verify the seller's story that the managers of both cemeteries had given the man permission to turn the vases in for scrap, police said.
Ms. McCain told the recycling manager, who paid the man $146.65, that no one was authorized to take the vases, police said.
Artificial limb maker moving to Linthicum
Dankmeyer, Inc., the state's largest maker of artificial limbs and braces, will move its Baltimore headquarters to Linthicum next Thursday, after receiving a $150,000 loan from the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation.
The loan will be used to buy equipment for the new location in the Merritt building in the 800 block of Hammonds Ferry Road. The site will house the company's manufacturing, administrative and patient services divisions.
Founded in 1954, Dankmeyer is known for developing electronic upper limbs, which are made and distributed to other companies. Dankmeyer has 35 employees and plans to add 10 positions next year. It also has offices in Easton, Frederick, Cumberland and Sinai Hospital.
POLICE LOG
* Ferndale: Thieves used bolt cutters Wednesday morning to slice the lock off a storage trailer parked behind the Caldor store in the Cromwell Fields Shopping Center, police said. Nearly $4,000 worth of comforters
were stolen, police said.