PITTSBURGH — State police are trying to find a western Pennsylvania man they say stole a handheld video game system and accessories from the casket of a teenager killed in a sport utility vehicle crash on Christmas Day.

Jody Lynn Bennett, 37, of Mentcle, grabbed a Game Boy, three games and a Game Boy Light from the open casket during the public visitation around 9:30 p.m. Monday at Rairigh Funeral Home in Montgomery Township, the news release said. He fled when confronted by family members, police said.

State police in Indiana, Pa., would not comment on the case beyond a brief news release issued Wednesday.

A trooper at the Indiana barracks said only that police were still searching for Bennett on Wednesday morning and could not say whether police have an arrest warrant for him. Online court records do not reflect that police have filed charges, but they show an arrest record for several drinking and relatively minor drug offenses dating to 2000.

The Associated Press could not immediately find a telephone number for Bennett, and a call to his parents’ home was not immediately returned. But Dianna Bennett, who identified herself as his aunt, said the family is aware of the allegations and embarrassed by them.

Bennett said her family is close friends with the parents of 17-year-old Bradley McCombs, of Clymer, who was killed when his sport utility vehicle skidded off a snowy road and hit a utility pole Saturday morning.

“I sort of figured they would be looking for him,” Bennett said Wednesday. “I wasn’t there that night, but we all went over yesterday” to the funeral home. Bennett said her nephew “has been into drugs, he’s into alcohol. He’s just messed up.”

A woman who identified herself as McCombs’ mother declined to comment when she was reached at home a few hours before her son’s funeral. The funeral home also declined to comment.