Police still haven’t found a funeral urn which was allegedly stolen from a house on Chesnut Tree Hill Road Friday — but it’s not for a lack or trying.
“We searched the rear of the victim’s home (in) three-foot snow drifts. We even threw things out there to see how far we could throw them and where they might land,” said Sgt. Dan Semosky, Oxford’s resident state trooper.
The unusual case — which has spread all over the Internet — started Friday, when police were sent to the house after receiving a report of a dispute between Mark J. Zakrzewski of Southbury and a woman who lives in the house.
The woman told authorities Zakrzewski pushed her to the ground. Once she called police, Zakrzewski allegedly fled in a red Pontiac — with the ashes of the woman’s grandmother.
When police caught up with him — and said he was carrying a gun at the time.
The urn, however, was gone. Authorities think he dumped it somewhere.
“He said he threw it into the snow, I don’t know, it could be in the snow at the victim’s home, it could be anyplace,” Semosky said. “So it’s unknown. We’re going to look at that a little more today.”
Several knocks on the door of the victim’s home Monday were unanswered. However, there were many footprints in the snow at the property, showing where authorities had been searching for the urn.
Zakrzewski is being held at the Bridgeport Correctional Center. He’s scheduled to arraigned Tuesday in Superior Court in Derby.
The woman and Zakrzewski had an on-again/off-again relationship, police said.
Zakrzewski was charged with sixth degree larceny for allegedly taking the cremation urn, with disorderly conduct for allegedly pushing the woman, and with carrying a pistol or revolver without a permit, because he allegedly had a handgun in his waistband.
