There must be something in the bourbon in Kentucky…

Two stories:

Kentucky woman said she found human bones. Sheriff says she was hiding stolen artifacts.

A Carroll County woman was arrested Tuesday after the county sheriff’s office said she made a false report about bones she said she discovered under an abandoned trailer.

Tammy Sculley, 40, told authorities last month that a dog dug up the human bones and brought them to her, Carroll County Sheriff Phillip Marshall said in a press conference Wednesday morning. Following an investigation, it was determined that those bones were archaeological antiquities that two separate people stole from an unspecified building, Marshall said.

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Kentucky man going to prison for stealing Indian bones, selling them

A Simpson County man faces federal prison time after stealing Native American bones from Mammoth Cave National Park and other locations across the country.

Gary Womack, 60, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Louisville to 15 months in federal prison.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the sentence is related to three felony violations of the federal Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Womack pleaded guilty to those offenses in March.

Womack has also pleaded guilty to trafficking in archaeological resources (Native American artifacts) from the western United States.

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