pleaded<\/a> guilty in May 2025 to his role in a nationwide network of people who bought and sold human remains, including remains stolen from the medical school in Boston.<\/p>\nAccording to a release from U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller:<\/p>\n
Taylor bought the remains from others knowing that the remains had been stolen.<\/p>\n
Others were indicted with Taylor on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen property as part of the same investigation.<\/p>\n
From 2018 through 2022, Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, stole organs and other parts of cadavers donated for medical research and education before their scheduled cremations.<\/p>\n
Lodge at times transported the stolen remains from Boston to his residence in Goffstown, N.H., where he and his wife, Denise Lodge, sold the remains to Taylor, Katrina Maclean and others, making arrangements by cellphone and social media websites.<\/p>\n
Cedric Lodge at times allowed Maclean and Taylor to enter the morgue and examine cadavers.<\/p>\n
Taylor on some occasions transported the stolen remains back to Pennsylvania. At other times, the Lodges shipped the stolen remains to Taylor and others out of state.<\/p>\n
Maclean and Taylor sold the stolen remains for profit, including to Jeremy Pauley of Susquehanna County.<\/p>\n
Pauley also purchased stolen human remains from Candace Chapman-Scott, who stole remains from a mortuary and crematorium in Little Rock, Ark., where she was employed.<\/p>\n
Chapman-Scott stole parts of cadavers that were to be 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.<\/p>\n
Chapman-Scott sold the stolen remains to Pauley and shipped them to him.<\/p>\n
These defendants pleaded guilty: Matthew Lampi of East Bethel, Minn.; Angelo Pereyra of Wichita, Kan.; Andrew Ensanian of Montgomery, Lycoming County; Cedric Lodge; Denise Lodge; Maclean of Bradford, Mass; and Chapman-Scott.<\/p>\n
Lampi was sentenced to 15 months in prison.<\/p>\n
Pereyra was sentenced to 18 months in prison.<\/p>\n
Ensanian was sentenced to 6 months in prison.<\/p>\n
Denise and Cedric Lodge were sentenced to 96 months and 12 months, respectively, in prison.<\/p>\n
Chapman-Scott was sentenced to 15 years in prison<\/p>\n
Maclean is awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Wyomissing man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for buying and selling human…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-253863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}