NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — The owners of a North Platte cemetery say they are fed up with the increasingly blatant thefts of items from graves.

Sue Condon, co-owner of Floral Lawns Memorial Gardens cemetery, said that items stolen since Memorial Day include solar lights, pinwheels and planters.

Condon says the thefts have become more frequent over the past three years, but that this year has been the worst.

She says that on Thursday afternoon, she and her husband had cleared decorations from the infant section of the cemetery to mow, putting the decorations in a silver trailer. But when she and her husband returned to the trailer that evening, it had been cleaned out.