Pennsylvania man connected to body part trafficking ring sentenced to 2 years of probation

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced after he pleaded guilty to charges of abuse of a corpse.

The sentencing took place during a court hearing on Tuesday, where a judge gave Jeremy Pauley two years of probation, with the possibility of the last year being unsupervised.

Pauley was arrested in the summer of 2022, after authorities said they found five gallon buckets of human remains in his Enola home.

Pauley was charged with crimes in Pennsylvania and in federal court, and he pleaded guilty in both cases. In federal court, Pauley pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy to interstate transport of stolen property.

A sentencing date has not been set for the federal charges.

WHP has been following Pauley's arrest, and the other branches of the story since it broke. WHP took a deeper dive into the case and the legal world of buying and selling body parts in the documentary, "Dealers of the Dead: Inside the Body Parts Business," which is streaming now on WHP's YouTube channel.

Pauley was charged, along with multiple others, in connection with the case, including people who were connected to Harvard Medical School's Anatomical Gift Program.

One of the people who was charged was Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard. According to court documents, he was taking body parts from morgue and selling them to people across the country.

In February, Lodge's wife, Denise, also pleaded guilty to federal charges.

WHP has been trying to speak with Pauley, but neither he, nor his attorney, provided comment.