Are You Transporting Drugs with that Dead Body?
by Mortuary Transport Expert ~ June 25th, 2009. Filed under: Removal Stories.I’m sure glad none of my drivers did this, but you never know, do you? Did quite a few removals from the Santa Clara County Coroner. I also had a contract with a funeral home that used that crematory, it was housed at an old cemetery. My my my.
Pot plants found with dead body cargo in traffic stop
Sophia Kazmi
Valley Times
Posted: 06/25/2009 01:01:49 PM PDT
DUBLIN — A traffic stop became a little bizarre Wednesday night when police found more than 100 marijuana plants and a dead man’s body inside a van they pulled over.
The body was legal, said Dublin police Lt. Kurt Von Savoye. The plants, however, were not.
The incident began about 9:45 p.m. when Dublin police pulled over a full-size Ford Econoline van near Shannon Avenue and San Ramon Road. While speaking to the two people inside, the officers smelled the distinct aroma of marijuana, Von Savoye said.
They detained the two people inside — 26-year-old Cannon McCarter of Discovery Bay and Nicole Schooss, 22, of Livermore — and searched the van. Inside they found 117 pot plants and a large box. Inside the box was a dead man’s body,” said Von Savoye.
The pair said they were transporting the body from the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office to a Livermore mortuary for cremation.
“It’s definitely unique,” Von Savoye said.
Based on the appearance of the body, which did not seem to be a victim of violence, it appeared they were telling the truth, Von Savoye said. Representatives of the coroner’s office and the mortuary were called out and verified the pair’s story.
McCarter and Schooss were arrested on suspicion of drug violations, Von Savoye said.
Transporting the body was legal, he said. Schoos and Cannon were working for a transport company hired to move the body.
“There was no violation ofbthe law” where the body was concerned, Von Savoye said.
