Police say a flower shop owner stole plants and other items from graves at a New Jersey cemetery, and the plunder went on for months.

Capt. Christopher DePuyt says police installed surveillance cameras at the First Reformed Church Cemetery in Pequannock Township after two plants disappeared from the mausoleum and replacement plants were stolen two days later.

He says the cameras caught a woman in a minivan taking the plants, and Riverdale officers recognized her as a former police dispatcher and current flower shop owner.

Authorities charged 59-year-old Lynda Wingate, of Riverdale, New Jersey with the disorderly person’s offense of theft of movable property.

DePuyt says Wingate claimed she was cleaning up old flowers from graves of people she knew, but he says he is not buying that one for a minute.

A message seeking comment left at Wingate’s flower shop was not returned.