Reminds me of the story about that scumbag who took control of KIA remains at Dover AFB and dumped them in a landfill for rats to eat them. It hurts to even think about this.
In the case in the article theft of government would be the appropriate charge. These were old headstones which had already been replaced.
He told investigators that part of his duties as a cemetery worker was to drive the old gravestones to a facility where the granite would be crushed before new grave stones arrived.
Now that part to me doesn't sound right. I can understand taking the old stones there but only doing so after new ones arrived and had been set where the old one was then the old ones are to be discarded taken to the grinding center. In other words he took to be discarded head stones. Old procedure V.A. used was simply the workers took a sledge hammer and destroyed them to where identity was not likely then threw them away. That was before recycling though.