State records say the owner, Jon Hallford, told the Colorado Program Director of the Office of Funeral Home and Crematory Registration Zen Mayhugh he practiced taxidermy at the property.
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Shannon Kent is the elected coroner for Lake County who recently agreed to cease operations of his six funeral home businesses in Colorado including this one in Gypsum and is facing at least one civil lawsuit and being investigated for possible violations of state mortuary codes.
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Criminal charges against Lake County’s embattled coroner, Shannon Kent, can proceed within Colorado’s 5th Judicial District, despite Kent’s concerns he cannot receive a fair trial because of bad blood between himself and District Attorney Bruce Brown, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled this December. overturns an earlier decision by Lake County District Court Judge Catherine J. Cheroutes. She ordered charges against Kent to be handled by a special prosecutor, noting “there is something personal about the case” for Brown, the prosecutor for Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit counties since 2012.
Local families who handed over purported cremains for analysis at Colorado Mesa University as part of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home case could see the results of that testing become part of evidence in an unrelated lawsuit.
A letter dated Wednesday informs the families who had ashes tested at the university that CMU has been subpoenaed for five yearsâ worth of its analyses of cremains and the results.
Those reports include the names of decedents and may also include the names of survivors, the letter states. The letter is signed by Jacquie Rich Fredericks, First Assistant Attorney General for Colorado, who is listed as counsel for CMU in the matter.
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