(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-03-04 09:40

Two men were taken into custody on Monday for allegedly stealing cinerary urns from a cemetery and extorting 20,000 yuan ($2,810) from the memorial park's authorities in Chifeng, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Mao and Chen met while serving time in prison in the early 1980s.

Police said they read about cinerary urns being stolen for money in the newspaper and decided to give it a try.

The two allegedly unearthed cinerary urns from the cemetery and extorted money from park staff in December.

"It was the first cemetery theft in Chifeng," police said.

(Inner Mongolia Daily)