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Funeral director accused of tossing pets' bodies into landfill, giving owners unknown ashes
On Monday, Patrick Vereb, 70, the owner of Vereb Funeral Home and Eternity Pet Memorial in Pittsburgh, was charged with the "improper disposal of thousands of dogs and cats for which owners paid ...
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‘They wouldn’t go in the freezers’: Funeral home director gave fake ashes to thousands of grieving pet owners, dumped actual carcasses in landfill, AG says
Inset: Patrick Vereb (Vereb Funeral Home). Background: Vereb Funeral Home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Google Maps). A Pennsylvania funeral home director allegedly bilked some 6,500 people out of ...
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They Trusted Him to Give Their Pets Funerals. But Was He Throwing Animals' Remains in the Trash the Whole Time?
Patrick Vereb is charged with theft by deception, receiving stolen property and deceptive business practices Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at ...
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Pittsburgh funeral director charged with swindling pet owners, dumping pets' remains in landfill
Patrick Roy Vereb, owner of Vereb Funeral Home and Eternity Pet Memorial, is charged with multiple felony counts of theft by deception, receiving stolen property and deceptive business practices ...
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He was paid to cremate their pets. He’s accused of tossing them in landfills.
A funeral home owner in Pittsburgh was charged with deceiving more than 6,500 pet owners who paid for their animals to be buried or cremated, only to have the remains thrown in a landfill or be ...
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Hazelwood, Harrison funeral director accused of pocketing $650K for pet cremations, burials that didn't happen
Funeral director Patrick Vereb is facing multiple felony charges, accused of improperly disposing of thousands of dogs and cats after owners had paid for pet burials or cremations. Vereb ...
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Funeral home director 'handed fake ashes to thousands of pet owners - while actual remains went to landfill'
Patrick Vereb, 70, will appear in court charged with defrauding £490,000 from 6,500 customers they charged to cremate their beloved cats and dogs. Rather than carrying out their wishes ...
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Pittsburgh-area pet owners begin learning whether they were victims of funeral home cremains case
Grieving pet parents tied up in the criminal case against Pittsburgh funeral director Patrick Vereb are starting to get answers. Vereb was charged last month with multiple felony counts after ...
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Pet parents turn to Facebook for grief support after funeral home director accused of mistreating bodies
More fallout tonight following a KDKA Investigation into local funeral director Patrick Vereb and his pet cremation business, Eternity Pet Memorial. KDKA Investigates is working to get answers for ...
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Pittsburgh funeral home owner allegedly dumped pets in landfill after charging for cremations
ISSUED. NOW LET’S GET BACK TO OUR BREAKING NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. THE OWNER OF A PET FUNERAL HOME ACCUSED OF DUPING THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS WHO CAME TO HIM FOR PET BURIAL AND CREMATION SERVICES.
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They Trusted Him to Give Their Pets Funerals. But Was He Throwing Animals' Remains in the Trash the Whole Time?
Patrick Vereb is charged with theft by deception, receiving stolen property and deceptive business practices A Pennsylvania funeral director is facing charges after prosecutors say he allegedly ...