A Liberty couple were doing more than whistling past the graveyard this past week when a deputy caught them pitching woo inside a local cemetery.

Shawn Collins Fitzgerald, 23, of Liberty was arrested for indecent exposure for his part in the nocturnal make out session. He was charged after a deputy responded to a graveyard off McMinnville Highway to investigate a suspicious person and found a vehicle parked therein. When the officer walked up the car he found Fitzgerald and Julie Marie Prater engaged in sexual contact. As a smoking gun, an empty condom wrapper was found nearby and Fitzergald’s zipper was down. When asked, the couple said they were “there to make out”. Prater was also charged for having outstanding warrants.

In other sheriff’s department arrests this week

Thomas Braxton Nix, 23, was arrested on charges of possession of drugs for sale or delivery during a probation visit to his home. He was caught with 5.5 grams of meth and 2.8 grams of marijuana. He was also caught with Xanax, and 36 suboxone pills. He was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia after scales and baggies were found in his home. He was then hit with charges of smuggling drugs into the county jail when he was caught with pills inside his wallet as his belongings were being locked up.

Whitney Leann Patton, 29, of Liberty was arrested for aggravated assault and vandalism. She is accused of smashing out the windows on a vehicle belonging to another woman who was sitting in the driver’s seat at the time. After smashing the windows when a bat, Patton later picked up a rock struck the window while the terrified woman was still inside.

Megan Marie McCarthy, 33, of Murfreesboro was arrested for public intoxication, resisting stop. She was arrested for being an unwanted guest at a residence and then resisted when the officer tried to place her in his patrol car.