NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) – A young man has been charged with kicking in the door of a Civil War-era tomb, pulling apart a skeleton, and posing for pictures with the skull and other bones.

“It’s bizarre, absolutely bizarre,” said Newburyport police Lt. Richard Siemasko. “I can’t even imagine what was in his head. This is just a whole new level of weird for me.”

Neil J. Goodwin Jr., 19, of Salisbury, was working at the city’s Old Hill Burying Ground on Aug. 17 as part of his court-ordered community service for a burglary conviction.

Prosecutors said Goodwin, who was on probation for breaking into an apartment building last fall, kicked in the thin marble entrance to the tomb marked “1863 Pierce,” and twisted off the decomposed corpse’s spine, collarbone and skull.

Police said they got an anonymous tip on Saturday, and later received three photos of Goodwin holding the bones. Police would not say who took the pictures or identified Goodwin, but they do not expect to make more arrests.

Investigators found the skull in a hole about 15 feet from the tomb.

Goodwin was arraigned Wednesday in Newburyport District Court on charges of desecrating a corpse and breaking into a tomb, both felonies. He was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail and is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 22.

Goodwin’s attorney, Michael Baldassarre, declined to comment on Thursday.

Siemasko said the city plans to hire a funeral home to piece the skeleton back together, so it can be replaced in its casket.

Police had trouble identifying the dismembered corpse because vandals who ransacked the crypt decades ago stole the silver nameplates that accompany each body, Siemasko said.

The Pierce crypt houses members of that family who died of tuberculosis between 1863 and 1899. The crypt has been vandalized at least three other times, most recently during the late 1970s or early 1980s when high school students broke in and removed a skeleton.