""I didn't have -- other than her ashes -- have anything else to kind of remember her with," Bianca Brockl said."
""To have a set place to remember her and sort of be together like a family again," said Rachel Brockl, Erna Brockl's granddaughter."
""Evidently, they use the bronze, and they can probably melt it down and sell it," Freeman said."
"According to the ABC7 Eyewitness News data team, bronze has been selling for as high as $3.70 a pound at scrap yards."
Twenty-six memorial plaques were stolen from Jean Sweeney Open Space Park, alarming families and park advocates. The plaques honored loved ones, including Erna Brockl, whose family used the bench as a gathering place. The theft disrupted their sense of togetherness. Park board member Dorothy Freeman suggested the motive may be linked to the value of bronze, which can be melted down and sold. Recent increases in the price of copper, a key component of bronze, have made such thefts more appealing.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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