A group of teenagers reportedly snorted a man’s ashes which they thought was cocaine after they broke into his daughter’s Florida home last December.
The culprits took the urn holding the ashes along with jewelery, electronics and a container carrying the remains of two Great Danes when they robbed the Silver Springs Shores residency, Reuters reports.
A report from Marion County Sheriff’s Office read: “The suspects mistook the ashes for either cocaine or heroin. It was soon discovered that the suspects snorted some of the ashes believing they were snorting cocaine.”
After realizing their mistake, the suspects threw the remaining ashes into a lake out of fear that their fingerprints were on the containers, the sheriff’s spokesman Judge Cochran added.
The thieves have been jailed on a number of charges, including burglary. Police are still trying to recover the missing ashes.
