A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges related to buying stolen human remains from a Berks  County man and others.

Jeremy Pauley, 43, of Thompson, Susquehanna County, was sentenced Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann.

Brann also ordered Pauley, who pleaded guilty in September 2023 to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, to pay a $2,000 fine and to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison.

According to a release from Brian D. Miller, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania:

Pauley admitted his role in a nationwide network of people who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.

Pauley bought human remains from multiple people — including Joshua Taylor of Wernersville — knowing they had been stolen.

Pauley also sold many of the stolen remains to others, at least one of whom also knew they had been stolen.

Previously, others also were indicted on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen property as part of the same investigation.

From 2018 through March 2022, Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass., stole organs and other parts of cadavers donated for medical research and education before their scheduled cremations.

Lodge at times transported stolen remains from Boston to his residence in Goffstown, N.H., where he and his wife, Denise Lodge, sold the remains to Taylor, 46; Katrina Maclean, 46, of Bradford, Mass.; and others, making arrangements via cellular telephone and social media websites.

At times, Cedric Lodge allowed Maclean and Taylor to enter the morgue at Harvard Medical School and examine cadavers to choose what to purchase.

Taylor sometimes transported stolen remains back to Pennsylvania, while at other times, the Lodges shipped stolen remains to Taylor and others out of state

Taylor and Maclean sold the stolen remains for profit, including to Pauley.

Pauley also bought stolen human remains from Candace Chapman-Scott, who stole remains from her employer, a mortuary and crematorium in Little Rock. Ark.

Scott 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 to be cremated and returned as cremains to their families.

Scott sold the stolen remains to Pauley and shipped them to him.

Pauley sold many of the stolen remains he had bought to others, including Matthew Lampi.

Lampi and Pauley bought and sold from each other over an extended period and exchanged over $100,000 in online payments.

“Today’s sentencing is another step forward in ensuring those who orchestrated and executed this heinous crime are brought to justice” Wayne A. Jacobs, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office, said in the release.

These defendants have pleaded guilty: Matthew Lampi of East Bethel, Minn.; Angelo Pereyra of Wichita, Kan.; Andrew Ensanian of Montgomery, Lycoming County; Cedric Lodge; Denise Lodge; and Maclean.

Ensanian was sentenced to six months in prison.

Lampi and Pereyra were sentenced to 15 months and 18 months, respectively, in prison.

Cedric Lodge was sentenced to eight years in prison, and Denise Lodge was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

Taylor and Maclean are awaiting sentencing.

Chapman-Scott pleaded guilty in federal court in Arkansas and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.