It hints that the perp and Darwin Award Winner may be served with a posthumous summons for some sort of environmental crime. He's an "alleged" thief but a definite polluter.
good point. it simply shows how far the environmentalist movement has gone when polluting a river with a biodegradable substance (human) and 50 pounds of recoverable items can be more decisively stated as being wrong than theft! i can quote the bible to know that theft is wrong -- not sure about a direct quote that states polution is wrong.