Morbid curiosity

ANAHEIM A stolen religious statue and two tombstones were recovered and two teenagers arrested at a home that initally alarmed police with its morbid decor. Santa Ana police on Wednesday arrested Jason Emanuel Alejos, 19, at his 1815 W. La Palma Ave. home and recovered a religious statue stolen from a Roman Catholic nursery school and tombstones from the graves of ba"We're trying to establish what if any significance these (tombstones) have to the statue, right now we believe they don't," said investigator David Salceda. "There's nothing to attach any (satanic) significance and there's no evidence that there was any ceremony or ritual going on inside the house." Alejos and Nalaina Sunt, 18, of Fountain Valley were booked into Orange County jail on charges of grand theft. Alejos was released Thursday on his own recognizance. Hunt was released on bail. Investigators found the inside of Alejos' house decorated with dark curtains, little lighting and drawings of skulls, heavy metal music posters and other inscriptions. "(It's) possibly a morbid sense of taste and a morbid taste of decorating but to attach more significance to that would be inappropriate,"Salceda said.