An Alabama man was arrested for placing flowers on his fiancee’s grave. Here's the story behind it:
hours after the newly engaged couple had visited their wedding venue. She died just a mile from her Montgomery home.
Hagans and Ford met at a coffee shop in September 2019. He was reading a theology book between classes and Ford asked him about it. It became clear to Hagans in the coming months that he would not get that permission, he said. The couple took a 30-day break but in January 2020 officially began their relationship, without the blessing of Ford’s father.
“We were planning everything out,’’ Hagans said. “We wanted our reception to be the best party all year.” Winchester Hagans, 31, is charged with criminal littering for putting flowers on his fiancee’s grave after she was killed in a 2021 traffic crash in Montgomery. He said Ford’s father promised him he would be able to see Ford’s body and that he would return the engagement ring. Neither happened, Hagans said.
He was handcuffed on the side of the road, but eventually let go because the officers couldn’t believe it either. They told him to go on to preach and to go to the Auburn Police Department the next day to sort things out.“I thought it was clerical error that led to me getting arrested on the side of the road and put in handcuffs and I wanted someone to apologize for it,’’ he said.
Auburn police released this statement about the arrest: “In response to recent inquiries regarding an arrest for littering at a local cemetery: In Alabama, certain burial plots are owned and controlled by the family of the deceased and therefore are private property. Any citizen has the right to pursue a criminal charge against another upon showing that sufficient probable cause exists to believe that a crime has been committed.
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