Dumb Grave Robbers

(Houston, Texas) Check this out. Houston Police officers questioned a local youth, 17-year-old Kevin Wade Jones, about some stolen credit cards.

Jones responded by saying that he and his two friends dug up a grave with shovels, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a bong for smoking marijuana.

Asked why Jones would volunteer such a story, Sgt. John Chomiak said, "We can only speculate and guess to what goes on in the criminal mind."

Really.

In any event, the story was confirmed and police arrested Jones, 17-year-old Matthew Richard Gonzales and a 16-year-old whose name is withheld. The three have been charged with misdemeanor abuse of a corpse. Investigators believe another person also may be involved.

Interestingly, the stolen skull has disappeared. Nobody seems to know what happened to it. Research has led to the identification of the former owner as Willie Simms, believed to possibly be a 19th Century war veteran. No next of kin have been located as yet.

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