BURBANK MEN ARRESTED AFTER HUMAN SKULL FOUND.Byline: Keith Stone Daily News Staff Writer After police found a human skull In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. and Jewish cemetery A Jewish cemetery (Hebr. בית עלמין "Beth Olamin") serves as any other cemetery for the burial of the dead and holds other qualities which are not found in Christian cemeteries. signs in a Burbank house, they arrested two men who they said Wednesday are linked to a neo-Nazi rock band. Jacob Luis Rupe, 20, of Burbank was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of illegal removal of human remains, grand theft, vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and and receiving stolen property, said Burbank police Lt. Larry Koch. Craig Matthew Lax, 21, also of Burbank was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property, vandalism and grand theft, Koch said. Detectives could not determine the source of the skull and have called in forensic experts from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Coroner's Office, Koch said. So far they know the skull did not come from Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles or Glenhaven Memorial Park in Sylmar, the cemeteries that the two suspects are accused of desecrating, Koch said. Police found the skull and two signs during a search of a house in the 2300 block of North Fairview Street, Koch said. Also seized was a shirt emblazoned with writing from a ``neo-Nazi, punk-rock band,'' with which Rupe and Lax are associated, Koch said. One of the suspects has a shaved shave v. shaved, shaved or shav·en , shav·ing, shaves v.tr. 1. a. To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver: head, but the other does not, he said. Both men are scheduled to be arraigned today in Burbank Municipal Court. Detectives took out the search warrant on the house after a guest there told them about the skull and signs, and said ``he didn't feel it was right for them to have these items,'' Koch said. Mount Sinai building facilities manager Frank Gilbert was outraged by the thefts. ``I'd like to prosecute To follow through; to commence and continue an action or judicial proceeding to its ultimate conclusion. To proceed against a defendant by charging that person with a crime and bringing him or her to trial. them not for the actual vandalism, but just for the act itself - the desecration in a cemetery,'' Gilbert said. One sign described the meaning of statues erected to commemorate the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. , and the other sign marked a section reserved for a temple, Gilbert said. Both signs had been taken more than a year ago. From a Jewish section of Glenhaven cemetery, Rupe and Lax are suspected of having broken into crypts to steal three grave markers and flower urns, Koch said. Glenhaven cemetery officials could not be reached for comment. |
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