Pennsylvania man arrested after shopping for stolen corpse: Police

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he allegedly bought human stays that had been stolen with doable intentions to resell them on-line.

Jeremy Pauley, 40, was arrested on July 20 and charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property, and dealing in proceeds of illegal actions, in line with the East Pennsboro Township Police Division. Pauley initially appeared in court docket on Thursday and was launched on a $50,000 bond pending a preliminary listening to.

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“I feel I’ve seen all of it, after which one thing like this comes round,” mentioned Sean McCormack, district lawyer for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. “The query we needed to reply was: Is the sale of physique components or bones and stays unlawful ... or authorized? A few of it, to our shock, was authorized. And because the investigation went on, it turned clear there was criminality occurring as properly.”

Pennsylvania police acquired a name reporting suspicious exercise on June 14, and officers found Pauley had been buying human stays from a lady in Arkansas on Fb. The corpses had been positioned in Enola, Arkansas, and Scranton, Pennsylvania, in line with police.

The stays had been meant to be donated to the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, in line with the Related Press. Nonetheless, earlier than they arrived, they had been stolen from Arkansas Central Mortuary Providers in Little Rock by a feminine worker. A spokeswoman for UAMS mentioned a federal investigation had been opened into the incident.

Pauley, a self-described collector of “oddities,” informed police he had acquired the stays legally, in line with a police affidavit obtained by the outlet. Upon preliminary investigation, officers discovered what they described as older human stays that they decided he had legally obtained.

Nonetheless, police returned to the house on a later date after receiving a second tip, and officers discovered extra human stays, together with five-gallon buckets of varied physique components, in line with police. Pauley informed investigators he meant to resell the physique components.