Colorado funeral home owner accused of sending fake ashes pleads guilty to fraud
Denver (AP) – A Colorado funeral host confessed to send fake ashes to mourning families and to defraud the federal government in a defense agreement with federal prosecutors on Monday.
Carie Hallford, who was guilty of a conspiracy to make a wire fraud in the federal court, is sentenced to 20 years in prison. As a part of the agreement, Hallford confessed to sending dry concrete to families instead of ashes and sending objects that decomposed in a room temperature building.
US Regional Judge Nina Wang rejected an previous agreement between Hallford and prosecutors last year. Wang will decide whether the current agreement, which includes the fall of the other 14 federal accusations, will be accepted. Hallford’s penalty hearing is planned on December 3, and prosecutors are not more than 15 years.
In a separate case in the state court, Carie and her husband, Jon Hallford, are accused of abuse of 191 corpse to bury the wrong body in two cases, and Penrose in Colorado hides about 190 people in a room temperature building at a two -hour driving distance of Denver.
Some bodies stopped for four years, many of them collapsed at various stages of decay.
Jon Hallford was found guilty of fraud in the federal case and 191 bodies abuse in the state case. Carie Hallford initially found guilty of the number of corpse abuse in the state case, but since then he withdrew his defense. Hallford’s next hearing in this case is September 4.
