Dive Team Locates Stolen, Snorted Ashes

[The Straight Story]

Dive Team Locates Stolen, Snorted Ashes
Teens Mistook Human, Dog Ashes For Drugs, Marion County Deputies Say

SILVER SPRINGS SHORES, Fla. -- A dive team on Thursday found the stolen ashes -- which were allegedly snorted by teen burglars -- of a man and two Great Danes in a Marion County lake.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office dive team found two wooden boxes holding the ashes in the Love Joy & Magic Lake at Gail D. Helvie Park in Silver Springs Shores.

Waldo Soroa, 19, Matrix Andaluz, 18, and Jose David Diaz Marrero, 19, (pictured, right) were arrested Tuesday and taken to the Marion County Jail on suspicion of breaking into a woman's home and snorting the ashes they mistook for cocaine or another drug. Two juveniles were also arrested.

According to the Marion County Sheriff's Office, a woman returned to her home on Locust Lane in Silver Springs Shores on Dec. 15 and discovered several items missing, including electronics, jewelry and the ashes of her father and two Great Danes.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. OMG! I would be flipped out if someone had done that to my dad and pets.

[GoneOffShore]

2. How could they mistake cremains for cocaine?

It looks like cat litter at best.

[REP]

3. Human remains are usually ground (for scattering); animal remains are usually not

Cremation doesn't reduce everything to fine ash, so many times human remains go through an additional process in case the survivors wish to scatter the ashes. Most animal crematories omit this step.

[GoneOffShore]

4. My dad's remains weren't ground finely enough to be

Mistaken for cocaine.

Looked like cat litter.

And as my brother and I stood in the foyer of his house preparing to scatter some of those ashes under the tree in the backyard where the cats were buried, we went into hysterical laughter.