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Newlyweds begin 'honeymoon' in jail

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- A Tennessee couple broke into the wedding chapel where they had been married a few hours earlier and stole a lockbox holding $500, police said.

Brian Dykes, 21, and Mindy McGhee, 24, of Jacksboro were in the Sevier County Jail Friday after being arrested at a Denny's Restaurant in Pigeon Forge, the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel reported.

"The jail may have to get a honeymoon suite, because that's where they'll spend their honeymoon," Joyce Whaley, owner of the Angel's View Wedding Chapel, told the newspaper.

Dykes and McGhee were married Wednesday afternoon at the chapel. At about 1 a.m., an employee who stopped by to make sure the place was secure discovered a door had been forced open and recognized the car in the parking lot.

"The wedding picture is what identified them," Whaley said. "They look exactly the same in their mug shots."

Police said the couple admitted the break-in and gave up the lockbox and stolen cash.

Whaley said her lawyers have advised her the marriage is still legal.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 10/12/2009

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