A man has been arrested and charged with littering after bringing an adorable box full of flowers to his late fiancée’s grave.
31-year-old Winchester Hagans from Opelika, Alabama, prepared a handmade box containing flowers and personal pictures of his and his late fiancée, Hannah Ford, and brought it to her grave to mark her first death anniversary.
As the man also revealed last year, he always brings flowers to his late partner’s grave only for his tributes to get thrown away by someone every time.
The 31-year-old also claimed he had talked to the city about his latest tribute and was informed that though it violates some of the cemetery’s rules it would not be removed unless the woman’s family specifically requested so.
While everything was fine at first, Hagans was in for a big shock when he was pulled over for expired tags only for the officers to tell him there was an active warrant for his arrest.
Knowing he hadn’t done anything wrong, Hagans first thought his arrest must have been some kind of a “clerical error.” After a while, however, he discovered that his late fiancée’s pastor father, Rev. Tom Ford III, allegedly pushed for his arrest on the charge of littering.
According to Hagans, he can’t comprehend how leaving a floral tribute on his late girlfriend’s grave can be considered littering or why the woman’s father, who allegedly never contacted him before the arrest, would press charges against him.
“Even though she is gone I promised her I would never bring her cut flowers again. She was the love of my life the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with,” Hagans says.
“She was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
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