Ex-mortuary worker pleads guilty to selling 24 boxes of body parts stolen from Arkansas cadavers
A former mortuary worker in Arkansas pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
A former mortuary worker in Arkansas pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Scott sold 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for almost $11,000, prosecutors said.
Scott, while she worked for a mortuary services provider, between October 2021 and July 2022, “Stole human body parts and fetal remains. Scott would then sell the stolen human body parts and fetal remains, arranging for them to be transported across a state line to the purchaser,” prosecutors said.
An attorney representing Scott declined comment Friday.
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