{"id":1479,"date":"2013-11-05T00:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T00:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikemalonedds.com\/blog1\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:12:02","slug":"funeral-home-worker-steals-teeth-from-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/funeral-home-worker-steals-teeth-from-corpses\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Home Worker Steals Teeth From Corpses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be creepy enough working in a funeral home, but how about one where an employee is extracting the teeth from the dead?\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s been happening in one California funeral home, and thankfully the employee has been caught red-handed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At Halley-Olsen-Murphy Funeral Home in Lancaster, California, one 39-year-old employee Pete Jacob Lara committed petty thefts over the course of a year that culminated into a total of 125 gold crowns from the jaws of dead people.\u00a0 Lara also stole \u201ca cremation urn box and medallions used to decorate urn boxes worth more than $1,000,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2480860\/Pictured-Mortuary-worker-stole-pawned-125-gold-teeth-mouths-corpses.html\">DailyMai<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stolen items Lara went on to sell at pawn shops and jewelry stores.\u00a0 The LA District Attorney\u2019s office has declared Lara to be charged with \u201cremoval or possession of dental gold from human remains, grand theft by embezzlement and possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-funeral-home-worker-charged-with-stealing-gold-teeth-from-bodies\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During his arraignment, Lara pleaded not guilty.\u00a0 His trial will commence on November 12th.\u00a0 If Lara is convicted, he faces up to 19 years in prison.\u00a0 His bail is set at a whopping $510,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does it freak you out that an embalmer was picking through the teeth of the deceased?\u00a0 Not to mention it\u2019s morally wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/about_doc1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/about_doc1.jpg\" alt=\"about_doc\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Mike Malone\u00a0and his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/about_us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team<\/a>\u00a0practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the<a href=\"https:\/\/aacd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry<\/a>. He\u00a0is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be creepy enough working in a funeral home, but how about one where an employee is extracting the teeth from the dead?\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s been happening&nbsp; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/funeral-home-worker-steals-teeth-from-corpses\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,363],"tags":[522,525,524,328,26,528,526,523,520,474,529,521,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-1479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dentistry","7":"category-health-lifestyle","8":"tag-corpse","9":"tag-dental-bling","10":"tag-dental-gold","11":"tag-dentistry-2","12":"tag-dr-mike-malone","13":"tag-embalmber","14":"tag-funeral-home","15":"tag-gold-crowns","16":"tag-gold-teeth","17":"tag-grillz","18":"tag-mortuary","19":"tag-theft","20":"tag-theif","21":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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