{"id":34356,"date":"2023-09-10T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=34356"},"modified":"2023-09-10T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:14:02","slug":"pennsylvania-man-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-in-stolen-human-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/09\/10\/pennsylvania-man-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-in-stolen-human-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Stolen Human Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCRANTON – 9\/8\/23 – The United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeremy Pauley, age 41, of Thompson, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property.<\/p>\n

According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Pauley admitted to his role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.\u00a0 In pleading guilty to a felony Information, Pauley admitted that he purchased human remains from multiple individuals knowing that those remains were stolen.\u00a0 Pauley also admitted to selling many of the stolen remains to others, at least one of whom also knew they had been stolen.<\/p>\n

Previously, other individuals were also indicted on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen property as part of the same investigation.\u00a0 The indictments allege that from 2018 through 2022, Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, located in Boston, Massachusetts, stole organs and other parts of cadavers donated for medical research and education before their scheduled cremations.\u00a0 Lodge at times allegedly transported stolen remains from Boston to his residence in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where he and his wife, Denise Lodge, sold the remains to Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor, and others, making arrangements via cellular telephone and social media websites.\u00a0 At times, Cedric Lodge allegedly allowed Maclean and Taylor to enter the morgue at Harvard Medical School and examine cadavers to choose what to purchase.\u00a0 On some occasions, Taylor transported stolen remains back to Pennsylvania.\u00a0 On other occasions, the Lodges shipped stolen remains to Taylor and others out of state.<\/p>\n

Maclean and Taylor allegedly sold the stolen remains for profit, including to Jeremy Pauley in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Jeremy Pauley also allegedly purchased stolen human remains from Candace Chapman Scott, who stole remains from her employer, a Little Rock, Arkansas mortuary and crematorium.\u00a0 Scott allegedly stole parts of cadavers she was supposed to have cremated, many of which had been donated to and used for research and educational purposes by an area medical school, as well as the corpses of two stillborn babies who were supposed to be cremated and returned as cremains to their families.\u00a0 Scott allegedly sold the stolen remains to Pauley and shipped them to Pauley in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Pauley sold many of the stolen remains he purchased to other individuals, allegedly including Matthew Lampi.\u00a0 Lampi and Pauley bought and sold from each other over an extended period and exchanged over $100,000 in online payments.<\/p>\n

The individuals charged along with Pauley as a result of the investigation are pending trial:<\/p>\n