It is smart, but what’s with the perp? He must be a crazy person. To steal little mementos from graves like that. Was it just this one guy’s grave, or others too?
The perp is not only crazy; he's sick and mean. What a combination.
From what is posted above there were several things from that one grave, he probably had other things from other graves too. Weird.
There was a woman caught stealing children’s things off a child’s grave here in the US within the last year or so. There was a camera in the cem. She wanted them for her own gifts for grandchildren or some such, IIRC.
BTW: “other people’s graves in his bin.”