A cemetery is a sacred space.
All decent people follow cemetery etiquette and are respectful and mindful of the place.
But what police caught a Florida couple doing at night on top of a grave will leave you shaking your head in disbelief.
The fear of cemeteries is known as coimetrophobia.
Most people are at least somewhat afraid of cemeteries because they believe that ghosts or other supernatural beings could be present.
But only a Florida man and a Florida woman strung out on drugs would find a graveyard sexy.
And that’s what exactly happened recently in Sumter County, Florida.
On March 27, officers from the Florida Highway Patrol noticed a white Nissan parked in front of the locked gates of the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery “with the windows down and no one in the immediate area.”
Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery is a historic site with 44 burials dating from 1849 to 1925.
It was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The officers went to the cemetery to allow his K9 to take a break.
After they found the empty Nissan, the officers “observed a white male and female at the rear of the cemetery engaged in sexual activity on top of unknown grave #43.”
“We approached the male and female and requested identification due to the cemetery gates being locked and closed and the activity taking place,” the police report read. “The male and female went to the white vehicle to obtain clothing, place a blanket back and the female obtained her ID.”
One of the officers took the K9 to the white Nissan to perform a “free air sniff of the vehicle.”
The dog picked up a “trained odor” and the officers carried out a “probable cause search of the vehicle” which “revealed a loose crystal substance on the passenger seat of the vehicle.”
An analyzer identified the substance as methamphetamine.
But it wasn’t just meth that sent the couple into a graveyard for an escapade.
The officer also found a bottle of Xanax and a bottle of Oxycodone pills.
The man was identified as Joseph Brown and the woman was identified as Stephanie Wegman.
But there’s one more twist in this wild story.
“The vehicle is registered to Mrs. Wegman and her husband Anthony Johnson,” the police report read.
The officers arrested both Johnson and Brown.
Wegman was booked into the county jail on multiple drug charges, including two counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and one count of trafficking oxycodone.
Court records showed that Wegman had been arrested three weeks prior on drug paraphernalia charges.
Brown was transported to a hospital due to a “preexisting injury” to his leg, but the officers said that “a warrant will be sought for Mr. Brown.”
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
