The owner of the funeral home allegedly told officials that their freezer had stopped working
A New York City funeral home is under investigation after human bodies were discovered inside unrefrigerated trucks outside of its business amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to officials.
Officers arrived on scene around 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday after a 911 call was received about bodies being stored inside two vehicles parked on a street in Brooklyn, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department told PEOPLE. Upon further investigation, police determined that the trucks belonged to a nearby funeral home.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
The exact number of bodies found by investigators could not be confirmed by police, who said no criminality was established. A spokesperson for the funeral home, identified as the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services, could not be immediately reached by PEOPLE. New York stationreported that a funeral director for the business told health officials that they ran out of freezer space for the bodies.
A representative for the New York State Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment, though a spokesperson for the department told PIX11 that "funeral directors are required to store decedents awaiting burial or other final disposition in appropriate conditions and to follow their routine infection prevention and control precautions."New York City has been the epicenters of the coronavirus in the United States.
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