Couple arrested - stealing artifacts from Native American gravesite in Hays County

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Couple arrested after stealing artifacts from Native American gravesite in Hays County
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/cou...from-native-american-gravesite-in-hays-county


Published April 9


SAN MARCOS, Texas - A husband and wife were arrested by Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement after they were caught stealing from a Native American burial site in Hays County.


According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, a game warden received an image from a cellphone game camera showing a man and woman trespassing and digging an archeological Native American burial site. The warden found the couple in a large hole previously dug by trespassers.


Before the warden could say anything, the man stood up and told the warden he wasn’t digging for arrowheads and hates diggers. The warden also learned during their conversation that the couple was a husband and wife out on a date. They were both detained in handcuffs and separated at the front and back of the warden’s vehicle.


The man admitted that he had a glass pipe in his pocket that he uses to smoke CBD oils. After a quick examination, the Baby Yoda glass pipe revealed small, clear and white crystals that looked like crystal meth, according to the report from Texas Parks and Wildlife.


The warden placed the pipe on the hood and went to the back of the vehicle to speak with the woman, who said she didn’t know the property was private. The warden then walked back to the front of the vehicle and noticed the pipe was no longer on the hood.


The warden questioned the man about the pipe and he said he didn’t know where the pipe went. Several feet in front of the vehicle, the pipe was found broken in half in the middle of a fresh footprint.


The woman’s purse contained several gray rubber gardening gloves, each containing four Native American artifacts. Upon further examination of the hole where the couple was found, the warden also found a small hand saw and freshly disturbed dirt.


The San Marcos Police Department took the couple to the Hays County Jail. While en route to jail, the man said he believed he had the coronavirus. He leaned forward against the partition and aggressively coughed toward the officers.


Both subjects were charged with criminal trespass and Antiquities Code violations. The husband was also charged with possession of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence and harassment of a public servant. These cases are pending.
 

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I'm surprised he didn't get a big charge saying he had the coronaviris and for deliberately coughing on the officer, unless the harassment is it but in my opinion that is beyond harassment.
 

Good reason to know the laws and follow them! Glad this warden caught them red handed
 

These are sum stupid people.
They're on a much higher level of ignorance than your average idiot.

My thoughts:

If someone coughs or spits on a LEO and claims to have Corona, then the LEO has the right to shoot them in self defense.
 

Should have left them in the hole. Save the tax payers some money!
 

Drop them off in the nearest reservation after telling the original Americans
 

What jerks. People like that make all diggers look like thieves and grave robbers.
 

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I’ve been told that hunting for NA artifacts is a source of income for meth addicts. Not sure whether that’s true but the behavior described here is just incredible.
dts
 

PRETTY MESSED UP PEOPLE
 

I’ve been told that hunting for NA artifacts is a source of income for meth addicts. Not sure whether that’s true but the behavior described here is just incredible.
dts

This is 100% true. I have heard many have learned to become shed hunters also. They have figured out all those nice artifacts and elks horns are like cash laying around the woods....and easy to sell. I don't have as big a problem with the sheds its definitely not grave robbing. Just as long as they don't trespass but you know it will happen sooner than later.
 

This is 100% true. I have heard many have learned to become shed hunters also. They have figured out all those nice artifacts and elks horns are like cash laying around the woods....and easy to sell. I don't have as big a problem with the sheds its definitely not grave robbing. Just as long as they don't trespass but you know it will happen sooner than later.

Yeah, antlers are replaced every year, either somebody picks em up or they will get eaten by mice and other little critters. Our supply of ancient artifacts, however, doesn't yearly replenish itself...
 

This is why we can't have nice things....
 

I’ve been told that hunting for NA artifacts is a source of income for meth addicts. Not sure whether that’s true but the behavior described here is just incredible.
dts

Apparently so.
A couple in Georgia was busted awhile back.
Same thing, diggin graves with meth in their pocket.

All jacked up ,nothing to do.
Let's go dig some graves.
 

If someone coughs or spits on a LEO and claims to have Corona, then the LEO has the right to shoot them in self defense.

You've got enough idiots wearing uniforms who are jacked up on steroids already, spoiling for opportunities to waste somebody and getting away with murder when they do as it is. They don't need any encouragement.

And no, I'm not some "anti-police" liberal. I'm a retired state prison employee who dealt every day with 2,400 of the kind of bad news people the police dread having to deal with even once. I know what defensible, necessary force is, and exercised it. Responsibly. With an injury history to back it up.
 

I say attempted murder, or at least assault charges should be added for the coughing. Jackasses like those two are precisely the reason all collectors have been labeled as looters and graverobbers, causing the passage of restrictive legislation on responsible collectors. Creeps.
 

That’s the only reason i buy the local paper anymore. To read the county and city crime report.its quite amazing these days.
 

chip: you definitely don't want to work in a prison then, where unpopular staff tend to get (inmate slang) "maced" (decorated with a cup full of urine and feces). One guy I knew, a block manager who was a real jerk, didn't dare go into the central part of the block because he'd get bombed with turds from the upper tier cells.

Sure, they get extra time for that when they succeed (with the cup through the door slot strategy, 'cause it's obvious which one did it), but if you're doing life anyhow (either doing "letters" or "life on the installment plan"), who cares ? ("Letters = "L-I-F-E").

Just business as usual in the big house.
 

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