Published: January 17, 2007 11:53 am            

Robbers return the most valuable item of all

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Eve and Steven Greene made a simple plea to the burglar who broke into their house: Keep the valuables. Return the cremated remains of their 4-year-old son.

“Just drop it off somewhere with a note on it,” Steven Greene said. “And that’ll be that.”

It worked.

Someone left the urn containing the ashes of 4-year-old Zachary Greene at the end of the Greenes’ driveway Wednesday morning, two days after it was taken in a burglary.

Police said a burglar broke into the home, snacked on Cheerios and tracked mud all over the house as he filled pillowcases with about $10,000 worth of valuables — and Zachary’s ashes.

Zachary died of cancer in 2005. His parents kept the urn above their fireplace next to a Play Doh fire truck Zachary made before he died.

        

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