Overview
- The theft occurred on June 12, 2026, when police say 30‑year‑old Nuo Chen entered his former employer’s Willow Grove home and took an urn containing her daughter’s ashes.
- Investigators say Chen, who had worked at the woman’s Bensalem nail salon and was fired weeks earlier for erratic behavior, had stayed at her home previously and the victim believes he took her keys.
- Surveillance video allegedly shows Chen approaching the house and leaving with the urn, and officers later intercepted him at the salon with the ashes inside a red shopping bag.
- Chen admitted to police that he used a key he had taken to enter the home, and prosecutors have charged him with burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and theft by extortion; he is being held in Montgomery County jail.
- The recovery of the urn and the formal charges close the immediate criminal investigation, and the June 26 preliminary hearing will determine whether the case proceeds to trial while the victim continues to decline public comment.