Man Finds Baby’s Urn Inside Recovered Stolen Truck

When Ahmad Ervin reunited with his missing truck, he never thought it’d leave him with a whole new mystery on his hands.

The Las Vegas man is now trying to find the family of an infant whose urn he discovered inside of his car that was stolen, and later recovered, last month.

Ervin and his family spoke to People magazine about the strange situation, which began when one of his trucks disappeared outside of his home on Sep. 25.

After a neighbor’s surveillance camera caught someone driving off with the truck, Ervin first filed a police report before deciding to hunt the vehicle down on his own.

“I had to do my proper due diligence by calling the police. I had to start … investigating myself because I didn’t want to lose my truck,” Ervin told Fox 5 Vegas.

It took Ervin five days and the help of some of his unhoused neighbors to track his truck down in a parking lot next to a local highway on Sep. 29.

Upon finding the large white truck, which he uses for his business, Lookout Moving Company, he saw that it was packed with what appeared to be stolen goods, like wallets and purses.

“Clothes, wallets, purses, everything was still in the truck. Probably about 10 people that might have been victimized during the time that [thieves] had my truck,” Ervin told Fox 5 Vegas.

When the police took some suspicious items away as evidence, Ervin was left to sort through piles of random clothes that were left behind.

While cleaning, Ervin remembers picking up a pile of clothes and feeling “something heavy” in the mix.

“I take a look at it and realized it’s an urn,” he told People.

The vessel was engraved with the name “Marcel Akarhi Alexander, January 7, 2020 – February 20, 2020,” but even with that identifying information, it hasn’t been easy for Ervin and his loved ones to track down the urn’s owners.

Since the urn was discovered, Danielle Belin, the sister of Ervin’s girlfriend, has been on a mission to reunite the item with its family.

“It just tore me apart,” Belin, who has lost several children of her own, told People. “It’s like having your child kidnapped, pretty much. It was our job to find out whose child it is to return to his parents.”

Through records, Belin was able to contact the mortuary that cremated baby Alexander and have them reach out to the person who originally gave them the remains, according to Fox 5 Vegas.

The mortuary’s general manager told the station that if no one claims the ashes, the funeral home can provide the baby’s urn a final resting place.

Belin told Fox 5 Vegas she will continue to work to find the baby’s family.

“I know if it was one of my children’s ashes, I would have just lost my mind with worry, because it’s something that you can never get back,” she explained.

Anyone with additional information that may lead to the family can contact Belin through Las Vegas 8 News Now.