Three men have been accused of unearthing the remains of two relatives and transporting them to a different cemetery in the Pine Tree State, The Associated Press reports.

The three men, Calvin Lewis, 71, Travis Lewis, 37, and Kevin Lewis, 42, have been charged with abuse of a corpse.

According to authorities, the accused allegedly unearthed the cremated remains of Richard Lewis and his son and then moved them to a family plot.

“That’s the shock of — you go to visit somebody at a resting place, then come to find out you don’t even know they’re not there — they’ve been moved,” said Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce, according to the Bangor Daily News. “The law specifically says you can’t dig up the remains and that’s exactly what they did.”

Maine Public Broadcasting Network reports that the widow of one of the two cremated individuals learned about the transfer from one of the three men charged with the crime and notified the authorities.

All three will appear in court on November 18.