Saying that his office is overwhelmed having assumed virtual responsibility for managing Burr Oak Cemetery, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart asked a civil court for an emergency order appointing someone to run the desecrated graveyard.

"I have been running the cemetery," Dart said at an afternoon press conference today in Bridgeview, "and that is obviously not what should be going on here."

Dart said that he has received no help from the cemetery's owners, Perpetua Holdings...