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A former mortuary employee from Arkansas pleaded responsible Thursday to fees that she bought 24 bins of stolen physique elements from medical college cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for practically $11,000.
She was one among many not too long ago charged in what prosecutors have referred to as a nationwide scheme to steal and promote human physique elements from an Arkansas mortuary and Harvard Medical Faculty.
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Candace Chapman Scott, 37, pleaded responsible in federal court docket to at least one rely of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one rely of interstate transportation of stolen property. She had pleaded not responsible when she was charged within the case final yr.
An indictment unsealed final yr accused Scott of organising the transactions with Jeremy Pauley, a Pennsylvania man she met by a Fb group about “oddities.”
A former mortuary employee from Arkansas has pleaded responsible to promoting 24 bins of physique elements stolen from cadavers. (Fox Information)
In September, Pauley pleaded responsible to fees stemming from the theft and sale of physique elements from the Arkansas and Harvard morgues.
Scott labored at Arkansas Central Mortuary Companies, the place a part of her job concerned transporting, cremating and embalming stays. The College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock mentioned the medical college there despatched the stays of cadavers donated to medical college students for examination.
An lawyer for Scott declined to remark Thursday afternoon.
Beneath a plea take care of Scott, federal prosecutors dropped 10 different telephone and mail fees towards her. She faces as much as 10 years in jail and a superb of as much as $250,000 for transporting stolen property. She additionally faces as much as 20 years in jail and a superb of as much as $250,000 for mail fraud.
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No sentencing date has been scheduled.
AR funeral director pleads responsible to promoting bins of physique elements stolen from cadavers
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