Florida police on Wednesday dug up an area near a Jewish cemetery whose operators have been accused of destroying coffins and bodies and then reselling burial plots. According to Reuters, 20 agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a worker from the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s office spent the whole day digging at Menorah Gardens Cemetery in western Palm Beach County.
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