47 year old, Patricia Sierra, was charged with burglary, grand larceny, and disturbing human remains in addition to break-in at the cremation burial service funeral home last month. Patricia allegedly stole a casket with a body inside and dumped it outside a funeral home. When caught, sources say she claimed she had “Blacked out from six beers.”
According to a police report, around 3 am on August 27th, the Metropolitan Police Department received a call reporting an intruder and odd person lurking in the funeral home. And the caller reported the funeral home appeared to be broken into. When looking back at surveillance footage, it showed a woman breaking a front window into the funeral home and reaching inside of the broken glass and reaching for the lock and unlocking it to enter the building. Surveillance shows the woman taking multiple trips in and out of the building. Which is when the woman carted the casket out of the building.
Sources show that while officers were investigating the building, a construction worker nearby reported seeing a strange woman holding flowers outside the funeral home the day of the incident.
The body from the casket had been found lying face down on rocks near the funeral home, with the front door open to the funeral home and broken glass scattered everywhere. Investigators came to find this incident and the body of this individual had been there for 24 hours. And the incident had occurred on the 26th of August.
No more than 3 days later a 911 call was reported claiming to have seen the woman who stole the casket inside a 7-Eleven convenience store, wearing the same exact clothing seen in the surveillance footage from inside the funeral home a couple days prior. Patricia was then taken into custody by responding officers. When Sierra was finally shown the surveillance footage from inside the funeral home Sierra claimed she has a substance problem and it has always ended with her blacking out. Patricia seemed entirely apologetic and allegedly stated she did not intend to steal the casket in such horror.
