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A 29-year-old man was arrested after he stole the ashes of a woman’s mother from her Queens home.
The cremated remains of a beloved Queens grandmother were swiped by a lowlife caught holding the ghoulish plunder, officials said Tuesday.
Randolph Ardila, 29, was busted Friday, moments after the ashes of Ann Ambrosino — contained in a gold-colored box — were stolen from her daughter’s apartment in Ozone Park.
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“I’m just glad they caught him. I was very, very upset,” Ambrosino’s daughter, Mary Scarpati, 70, told the Daily News on Tuesday.
NYPD investigators had set up surveillance on Ardila after suspecting him in earlier Queens burglaries.
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Detectives saw Ardila posted outside Scarpati’s apartment building on 103rd Ave. acting as a lookout, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Brown said three men came out of the building and put two bags of stolen property in Ardila’s BMW. Cops then stopped Ardila and recovered the stolen property, including Ambrosino’s remains — which were returned to her daughter.
Scarpati said her mother died nearly two years ago and that she kept the remains in her living room. She said her jewelry and a jug containing loose change also were taken.
The three accomplices in the break-in fled the scene in a second car.
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