SAN ANTONIO – The owner of the now-closed Arthur M. Kleypas Memorials located on 1700 block of Culebra Road was arrested on Sept. 9 on theft charges.
Calvin Kleypas was booked into the Guadalupe County Jail and released the same day on a $10,000 surety bond, according to jail records.
Kleypas has been under lock and key in Guadalupe County before when he was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated on Dec. 20, 2013, and again June 26.
While police seem to have caught up to Kleypas, his customers haven't.
KSAT 12 first aired the story Monday night featuring two families who paid Kleypas thousands of dollars for headstones for their loved ones' grave sites that they never received.
"When I saw the story last night, I was mad, really mad. But then I thought to myself, ‘What kind of person stoops real low?' That's the lowest of the low," said Rudy Castillo, who has not received the headstone he purchased for his daughter's grave from Kleypas Memorials in January.
KSAT 12 visited Kleypas' home in Cibolo, where he lives with his mother.
Marshalene Kleypas told us Calvin was not home, but did have another job and was "trying to rectify it."
She was unaware of the theft charge against her son, or the cases filed against her and the memorial business for delinquent taxes.
A case of delinquent taxes against Kleypas Memorials was filed in Bexar County on Aug. 19.
On Sept. 18, a delinquent tax filing was made against Ms.Kleypas in Bexar County.
Some of Kleypas' scorned customers have filed police reports regarding their failed business dealings while others are in the process.
They hope strength in numbers will help them get what they paid for or get their money back.
"There's an emptiness and a void in our families. We need that tombstone [to know] that it is finished, that she's lying, resting in peace now," said Castillo.