{"id":54176,"date":"2023-01-25T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/illinois-police-hunt-for-man-charged-with-stealing-funeral-home-van-with-body-still-inside-54176"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:53:40","slug":"illinois-police-hunt-for-man-charged-with-stealing-funeral-home-van-with-body-still-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/illinois-police-hunt-for-man-charged-with-stealing-funeral-home-van-with-body-still-inside-54176","title":{"rendered":"Illinois police hunt for man charged with stealing funeral home van with body still inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rockford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois police<\/a> are looking for a suspect charged with stealing a funeral home van with a body still inside, authorities say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The van, which belongs to Collins &amp; Stone Funeral Home, was stolen from outside the business Saturday afternoon \u2013 with the body of 47-year-old Curtis Brown still inside the cargo area, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockfordPD\/status\/1618361831889997825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers received a call that the van had fled Rockford towards the Chicago area. On Sunday, Chicago police located the van in the 1400 block of E. 87th Street, but no body was found inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rockford police were notified Monday evening that Brown\u2019s body was found in the 8200 block of S. Manistee in Chicago. The Winnebago County Coroner\u2019s Office transported the body back to Rockford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/west-virginia-man-accused-kidnapping-burning-woman-torch-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WEST VIRGINIA MAN ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING AND &#8216;BURNING&#8217; WOMAN WITH TORCH: POLICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified 23-year-old Deon Howard as the suspect who stole the funeral home van Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Winnebago State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office reviewed the facts of the case and authorized the following charges against Howard: unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle and abuse of a corpse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Howard has not been arrested as of Wednesday evening and remains at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystateline.com\/news\/local-news\/mother-reacts-after-sons-body-stolen-from-rockford-funeral-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told WTVO<\/a> they were not told his body had been stolen until Monday \u2013 days after it was stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The emotions that I am going through, my hair is beginning to fall out and my nerves is on 30-30, I\u2019ll put it that way,&#8221; Brown\u2019s mother, Cindy Howard, told the station. &#8220;I just feel sick.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information relevant to this case should call the Rockford Police Department at 815-966-2900.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/illinois-police-hunt-man-charged-stealing-funeral-home-van-body-still-inside\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/illinois-police-hunt-man-charged-stealing-funeral-home-van-body-still-inside <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockford, Illinois police are looking for a suspect charged with stealing a funeral home van with a body still inside, authorities say.\u00a0 The van, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-54176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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