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Suffolk police investigate Melville Cemetery desecration

Parsa Karimi went to Melville Cemetery on Friday, hoping to find his uncle's gravestone was not among the dozens damaged in an act of vandalism.

Karimi, 30, of Farmingdale, froze in the nearly 200-year-old cemetery when he saw the stone had been knocked over - and he was just as upset that a cemetery official didn't tell him about it.

"It's like he died all over again," Karimi said,...

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