Mich. bride arrested on wedding day, charged with identity theft

(CBS/AP/WKMG) JACKSON, Mich. - Authorities say a bride who was arrested on her wedding day this weekend has missed her day in court.

Even so, the honeymoon may soon be over for MIchigan newlywed Tammy Lee Hinton. 

The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports that Hinton, 53, was briefly jailed Saturday in her wedding dress on a warrant for identity theft, then failed to appear in Jackson County District Court on Monday. She had been wanted by authorities on the felony warrant for 3 years.

Police believe Hinton has been living in Florida. They received two tips that she would be in Michigan for her weekend nuptials.

Officers had discussed whether to arrest her on her wedding day, and decided to do it because they had no other information about her whereabouts, Blackman Township public safety officer Rick Gillespie said. They let her pose for last-minute photographs before taking her to jail, he said.

"We can't ignore it when we have good information on where she's going to be," Gillespie said. "We had to do what we had to do," he told CBS affiliate WKMG.

Police said they gave Hinton the chance to change clothes before she was taken to jail, but she declined, the station said.

Jon Johnston, the public safety director for Blackman-Leoni Township in Michigan, says his department will try to locate her if another arrest warrant is issued.