Report: Intoxicated Ky. man tried to dig up dad's grave Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:26 PM EDT Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 3:26 PM EDT 
 
 LINCOLN COUNTY, KY (WAVE) - A man was arrested after deputies said he tried to dig up his late father's grave in order to argue with him, according to a report. 
 
 Michael May, 44, was arrested after digging up the grave of his father at the Pilot Baptist Cemetery near Stanford, in Lincoln County, on Monday night, deputies told Lexington television station WLEX. 
 
 May told the arresting deputies his dad died about 30 years ago. 
 
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 The cemetery registry lists 13 people with the last name of May buried at that location. Willis Green May was the only one who died around 30 years ago -- on Nov. 23, 1983 -- but it's not clear if he was Michael May's father. 
 
 A man named Eugene May was the last person ever buried at Pilot Baptist, in 2002. 
 
 Michael May, who investigators said was intoxicated, was charged with violating a grave, public intoxication and possession of marijuana. 
 
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 A man admits he tried to dig up his late father's body in a Lincoln County cemetery. 
 
 Michael May is charged with violating a grave, possession of marijuana, and public intoxication. 
 
 On Monday night, Lincoln County Constable, Delbert Mitchell said he saw a truck parked outside of Pilot Baptist Church in the county so he went into the cemetery to investigate. 
 
 "I went back and hollered for him to step back in the light and he told me to step back to the dark. That's when I went and got my flashlight. He started hollering out [Bible] verses at me," Constable Mitchell said. "He told me he was trying to dig his dad up, so his dad could go to Heaven." 
 
 May's father died nearly four decades ago. 
 
 While behind bars in Lincoln County, May told LEX 18's Josh Breslow that he was trying to dig up his father and said a Bible verse led him to do it. 
 
 Reporter: "Do you believe that you belong here in jail?" 
 
 Suspect: "No." 
 
 Reporter: "Tell me why." 
 
 Suspect: "I didn't do nothing wrong." 
 
 Reporter: "Do you feel that you were violating a grave?" 
 
 Suspect: "No, no." 
 
 Suspect: "I see the truth.. he needs to be on the ground. Not under it." 
 
 Constable Mitchell said he is familiar with May and this didn't seem like him. The suspect's friends agree. 
 
 Investigators said they worry what might have happened if the constable had not shown up. They also said it appeared that May was "under the influence" at the time of the incident. 
 
 When asked if he would continue trying to dig up his father's body, May said: "It's a possibility. If the truth doesn't come out and nobody sees the truth, yeah I'll do it again." 
 
 May is expected to appear in court on Monday.
– In something we can see very few people getting in trouble for other than the Costanzas on Seinfeld, a 44-year-old Kentucky man has been arrested for trying to dig up his departed dad from a cemetery—so that, according to KMOV, he could finish an argument with him. Lincoln County Constable Delbert Mitchell says he was driving by Pilot Baptist Cemetery near Stanford on Monday night when he spotted a truck parked outside and decided to investigate, per Lex 18. Inside the graveyard he spotted Michael May. "I … hollered for him to step back in the light and he told me to step back to the dark," he tells the station. "That's when I went and got my flashlight. He started hollering out [Bible] verses at me. He told me he was trying to dig his dad up, so his dad could go to Heaven." May was arrested on charges of public intoxication, possession of marijuana, and violating a grave, but from his cell at a Lincoln County jail, he told a Lex 18 reporter he didn't think he belonged in there because "I didn't do nothing wrong. … I see the truth. He needs to be on the ground. Not under it." He also told the reporter that, given the chance, he'd probably try again to dig up his dad (who died between 30 and 40 years ago, according to different sources), saying, "It's a possibility. If the truth doesn't come out and nobody sees the truth, yeah I'll do it again." The constable and May's friends tell the station this isn't how May, who's due to appear in court on Monday, typically acts. (A woman who dug up her dad's grave to find his "real" will only found this.)