Police say he handed the teller a note demanding cash. The teller complied and the suspect fled on foot.
The urn was stolen from a 2010 Chrysler parked in the driveway of a residence located on Elkton Lane North in North Babylon, police say, between July 22 at 9:45 p.m. and July 23 at 7 a.m.
Prosecutors say the AutoZone deliveryman admitted in a statement to investigators that he stopped his van when he realized he was dragging something, checked beneath his truck and saw the victim's body, then continued driving to his next delivery, "to get to his next job."
Witnesses say the victim was dragged hundreds of yards along the pavement beneath a truck before her body became dislodged from the undercarriage.
Joan Sparacino was walking to feed a turtle in her koi pond when the concrete cover to the cesspool somehow gave way.
Police arrested 59-year-old Darrell Morgan Wednesday after he was pulled over on the Sunrise Highway service road in North Babylon.