Feds Raid Chicago Body Parts Operation Linked To Detroit

Options
1CK1S
1CK1S Members Posts: 27,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
7 Action News has learned federal investigators raided two locations of a body donation business in suburban Chicago.

It's a case that started in Detroit. The offices Biological Resource Center in Rosemont as well as a lab in another suburb were raided Tuesday afternoon.

This follows a raid in January of 2014 at another Biological Resource Center in Phoenix and International Biological in Detroit. Sources say the raid in Detroit in December of 2013 found body parts of thousands of different people, arms, legs, heads-- all kept on ice and not embalmed so they would be fresh for the black market.

After 7 Investigator Jim Kiertzner did several stories on this case, the president of International Biological, Arthur Rathburn, had his Mortuary Science License pulled by the state of Michigan. His warehouse on Detroit’s east side is shuttered and has a for sale sign in front of it.

Sources say records obtained from Rathburn also showed he had ties with Biological Resource Center in Phoenix. It has also been shutdown since that raid a year ago.

No one has been charged with a crime, but sources say with this latest raid in Chicago, they can wrap up the case.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/feds-raid-c...ked-to-detroit
«1

Comments