Teen ‘stole head of corpse’

A 17-YEAR-OLD has been charged with raiding a tomb and stealing the head from a corpse in a US cemetery.

Nickolas Buckalew is being held on a $100,000 (€77,000) bail after pleading not guilty to disturbing the remains of a person.

Police said they found remains and the tools used to break into the tomb in a bag near Buckalew’s home not far from the cemetery in Morrisville, Vermont.

Court documents said the suspect allegedly talked of using the man’s head as a “bong”, a pipe to smoke marijuana.