Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in 1958 for the crime “being married to each other”. Learn their life story after the jump. The sheriff of Caroline County, Virginia, arrested the couple in a nighttime raid in their bedroom. Richard was a bricklayer with a blond buzz cut. Mildred was of Native American and African-American descent. The Lovigns were told by a judge to leave their state for 25 years.