When sheriff’s deputies raided a suspected meth house in Loma Linda, the drugs, guns and pipes were there, as expected.
But the discovery of about two dozen granite tombstones had them stumped.
Although officials originally believed the markers were stolen, that might not be the case.
A San Bernardino man has said his company made the tombstones, but he gave them to a local contractor a few years ago because they all had mistakes.
Denver Cooley said Friday that when he first started working at Monumental Bronze & Granite in 1996, the owner at the time had a big stack of markers that could not be used because they either had a wrong date or missing initial.
Tombstones are hard to get rid of, Cooley said, because it’s difficult to break them into pieces, and they’re too heavy for easy disposal.
Over time, the pile of mismarked markers--some of which were 20 years old-–just grew larger.
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