Overview
- A private individual discovered roughly 70 small piles along a dirt road near Searchlight, about an hour south of the Las Vegas Valley off U.S. Route 95.
- The finder alerted local media and provided a photograph documenting the scene.
- The Bureau of Land Management confirmed the material is cremated human remains and launched an investigation.
- Nevada law permits scattering cremated remains on public land, while BLM policy prohibits the commercial distribution of such remains.
- Authorities have not determined where the remains originated or whether they were placed intentionally, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had not immediately commented.