FARMINGTON — Police were alerted Saturday morning to a woman destroying a gravestone in Fairview Cemetery near the Farmington Police Station.

“We got a call that a lady at the cemetery was smashing a headstone with a sledgehammer and, sure enough, when we arrived, that’s what she was doing,” Detective Mark Bowering said. The complaint came in at 11:20 a.m.

Bowering declined to name the woman or the name on the headstone, because no charges were filed. He said the woman owns the burial plot and the headstone, so, in effect, she was destroying her own property.

The incident was related to another that occurred Thursday when a man’s remains were removed from the grave and taken to Massachusetts, Bowering said.

He declined to share information about that incident.

However, according to both a Daily Bulldog story and a Waterville Sentinel story, Stanley Gorski of Anson was buried in the grave.

The Sentinel reported that Gorski was killed on May 16, 1995, by his son in a murder-suicide in Anson. The information was attributed to Farmington police Sgt. Shane Cote.

According to the Bulldog, Gorski’s children had their father’s remains legally disinterred and returned to Massachusetts. Gorski’s widow objected but was unable to prevent it.

Apparently, Bowering said, the gravestone was no longer needed.

“It was just a bizarre call,” Bowering said. “It’s been a bizarre week.”

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