SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced in a release that 43-year-old Jeremy Pauley, of Thompson, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on December 22, 2025, to 72 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann for conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property.
Chief Judge Brann also ordered Pauley to pay a $2000 fine and serve three years on supervised release following his sentence.
According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Pauley admitted to his role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary. Pauley purchased human remains from multiple individuals knowing that those remains were stolen. Pauley also sold many of the stolen remains to others, at least one of whom also knew they had been stolen…