A ceramic urn holding an infant’s ashes was among the items stolen during a burglary of a Waialua home.

Leimomi Kahele left her home for about 25 minutes Wednesday and returned to find it ransacked.

While walking through her home with officers, she noticed an empty spot on her bedroom dresser.

"That’s when I looked at my son’s picture and I realized the urn was gone," Kahele said Thursday. "I fell to my knees crying that they took my son’s ashes."

KHON2 reported Thursday that the urn and other stolen items were found by a woman in Hauula and were awaiting positive identification. Kahuku police would confirm only that the case was ongoing.

Horace Keliiholokai Kahele III was born 15 weeks premature on Aug. 15, 2004. He lived for five days.

"On top of the urn was his rosary he wore when we took him off life support," Kahele said. "That’s gone, too."

She had returned from a trip to the pharmacy when she noticed the baby gate on her porch was open and some jalousies were removed from a window.

She was still taking inventory Thursday but said other missing items included a portable DVD player, clothes, $600 of saved rent money in a safe and the lone present under the Christmas tree.

The 25-year-old stay-at-home mom asked that the urn be returned, no questions asked. With her husband, mother, two aunts, a cousin and a friend, Kahele spent Thursday afternoon scouring Waialua’s back roads for signs of the discarded urn or its contents.