According to a police affidavit, William "Billy" Cantrell took an XBox from his neighbour along with a small box last week. His grandmother said the 28-year-old brought both of the items back to her house but she believes he was not sober at the time of the incident.
"If he gets to drinking and doing drugs he's out there. He needs help. There needs to be more to it than putting him in jail," she said. Allen said the original tie was still on the bag of human ashes and believes her grandson never opened the bag. "On the top of it, it had a white piece of paper taped over it with date of birth, date of death, name and the funeral home," she added.
The ashes belonged to a neighbour, Steven Medley, and the remains were those of Medley's mother. "They just made it sounds like he's a bad, terrible person broke in this house and stole this woman's ashes. I'm not saying he's not guilty but he didn't know what he was stealing," his mother Kathy said about the incident. Cantrell is being held on an aggravated burglary charge.
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2 comments:
So he wouldn't be a bad person if it was cocaine that he stole? Grandma needs to get her head out of the sand.
It sounds funny at first the way his family is defending him ...but then I watched the video and the story is just plain sad. He's a drug addict from a poor family in a poor area with no chance for real help.
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