PARKLAND, Fla. -- An Oswego County woman was arrested this weekend after police in Florida accused her of helping steal items from a memorial for the Parkland shooting victims, according to news reports.

Kara M. O'Neil, of Fulton, and Michael Shawn Kennedy, of Hollywood, Fla., are accused of stealing teddy bears, plaques, pinwheels and other items from a fence near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

The alleged theft happened around 10 p.m. Sunday, The New York Post reported.

Witnesses told police they saw O'Neil and Kennedy steal items from the memorial, which was set up along the school grounds shortly after the massacre.

On Feb. 14, former student Nikolas Cruz walked into the school and fired at students with an AR-15 assault rifle. When he was done, 17 people were killed and 15 others were injured.

O'Neil, 40, and Kennedy, 37, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of removing or disfiguring a tomb or a monument, a felony, according to the Sun-Sentinel. They were sent to the Broward County Jail.

Jail records show O'Neil remains in jail on $1,000 bail.

Kennedy also was sent to jail on $1,000 bond. He previously served time in prison after he was convicted of delivering Oxycontin, burglary and assault on a police officer, Broward County prosecutor Eric Linder told the Sun-Sentinel.

At a court hearing Monday, an unemployed Kennedy told a Broward County judge: "I feel the charging document has insufficient facia elements ... it is neither a tomb nor a monument," according to the Sun-Sentinel.



The judge looked up the state statute and disagreed with Kennedy, saying the law also protected a memorial for the dead or burial artifacts, the Sun-Sentinel reported.