A Kentucky man was caught in the act of digging up the body of his long-dead father so that he "could go to heaven," authorities said.
Michael Dale May, 44, of Somerset was being held Wednesday in the Lincoln County Regional Jail on $1,000 cash bond on charges of violating graves, public intoxication and possession of marijuana.
May was discovered late Monday in the cemetery at Pilot Baptist Church in Eubanks near midnight trying to exhume his father, who died 30 years earlier, according to County Constable Delbert Mitchell.
"He started hollering out [Bible] verses at me," Mitchell said. "He told me he was trying to dig his dad up so his dad could go to heaven."
