PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A Tennessee man was arrested after he allegedly stole a box full of human ashes, thinking the powder was cocaine. Police said William “Billy” Cantrell, 28, snatched the box from a neighbor’s home. “He thought he’d done found him a box of cocaine is what he thought,” said Cantrell’s grandmother, Wanda Allen. Cantrell’s mother, Kathy, said he had not snorted the ashes, and hoped police would go easy on her son. “I’m not saying he’s not guilty,” she said, “but he didn’t know what he was stealing.”