Overview

• Fiscalía de Chihuahua agents detained 68-year-old Miguel Ángel A.O. on charges of illegally retaining a corpse and violating inhumation, exhumation and conservation statutes.
• Officers seized a body during the raid that will undergo pericial and forensic testing to establish its identity.
• Funeraria Del Carmen had been suspended by Coespris since October 10, 2024 but continued operating until this weekend’s intervention.
• Investigators are examining links between the funeral home and the wider Crematorio Plenitud fraud, in which authorities found 383 uncremated bodies and families received ashes mixed with animal remains and debris.
• Specialized forensic teams are using patented rehydration techniques to accelerate victim identification and work toward delivering genuine ashes to awaiting families.