A person from Hastings has been charged with mischief after a family dispute about a headstone.
Last Thursday (February 29), Peterborough County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call reporting damage had been done to a headstone been purchased for future use.
The headstone, which contained the names of a couple as well as the names of family members, had been placed at a cemetery.
A person whose name was on the headstone but who did not want to be associated with others on the headstone, went to the the cemetery and chiselled their name off it. This caused irreparable damage to the headstone which the owners reported to police.
Police arrested a 31-year-old person from Hastings and charged them with mischief over $5,000.
The accused person, who police are not naming to protect the identity of the victims, will appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Peterborough at a future date.
