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Shayanna Sims is being held on the charge of illegal dissection of a human body.

Sims, also known as Shayanna Smith, is said to have cut the deceased woman's hair, slashed her cheek and smeared her makeup.

Police were called to the Moore Funeral Home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, when family members said they saw the 26-year-old with her hands inside the casket.

Officers found hair on the floor and a "large vertical cut starting from the hairline stretching to the tip of the nose".

Shocked funeral director John Wilson told local media that he had never experienced such a situation in 30 years in the business.

"It’s really unfortunate that it happened," Wilson told Tulsa World.

Police say they found a folding knife with hair that matched the hair on the floor on Sims during a pat down.

They also found scissors, a box cutter knife and "various pieces of makeup" on her person.

Sims is being held on a $10,0000 bond for the dissection charge and a $10,000 bond on a previous charge of assault and battery.