LIVE OAK — A pair were arrested earlier this week in connection with a death in October.

Carl Livingston, 49, and Janice Yohey, 46, were arrested Wednesday on warrants from the State Attorney’s Office for charges of grand theft, tampering with evidence and petit theft.

The charges stem from an Oct. 12, 2018, incident when officers from the Live Oak Police Department responded to a residence on McGee Street in regards to a suspicious vehicle parked behind the house.

The officers found the vehicle’s owner, 76-year-old Russell Alford Johnson, of Lake City, dead in the back seat of the vehicle, “scrunched” up on the floor.

Livingston, who lived at the residence and who called police about the car, denied knowledge of the vehicle or how it arrived at his residence, according to an LOPD release.

Livingston also denied any knowledge of the deceased or how he came to be in the vehicle.

During LOPD’s investigation into the death, it was determined that Yohey, a Live Oak resident, had accompanied Johnson in the days leading up to his death, the release states.

Yohey told investigators that she and Johnson had attended a small gathering in a wooded lot on 2nd Street near Lime Avenue in Live Oak on Oct. 10.

The release states she said Johnson consumed large amounts of alcohol and passed out, leading to her and another person placing him in the back of his vehicle.

According to LOPD’s release, Yohey then drove the vehicle to Livingston’s house where she later went inside to sleep, leaving Johnson sleeping in the back of the vehicle where she could hear him snoring.

Yohey told investigators she discovered Johnson dead in the vehicle the following morning, Oct. 11, around 9 a.m. She said Livingston also checked on Johnson, the release states.

But neither Yohey nor Livingston reported the death, according to investigators, instead driving the vehicle to various locations within the city with the body in the back of the vehicle, the release states.

According to LOPD, the two also traded Johnson’s EBT card for drugs during that time.

An autopsy performed by the medical examiner’s office determined the cause of death was probable positional asphyxiation.