Man stole Organ Tissues including brain samples from a Museum and sold it online via eBay
A typical story line of a Hollywood horror movie depicts a man desperate for cash, breaks into a storage facility to steal organ tissues and brain samples of dead patients and later sold them online.
Now, what if it happens in real life?
According to USAtoday, authorities in the state of Indiana were tipped off by a San Diego man who became suspicious about six jars of brain tissue he purchased on eBay for $600. Indianapolis police detectives used that tip to trace the transactions and eventually tracked and spoke to the seller. Police said the ebay seller obtained the brain tissue from a 21-year-old man, who was later identified as David Charles.
The investigators immediately set up a trap on December 16 and used the eBay middleman as their asset for a meeting at a Dairy Queen parking lot with Charles, who the day before stole 60 jars of human tissue from a medical history museum, according to court documents.
The court statement named one person with Charles, who allegedly reached for a handgun but was quickly tackled by officers. His name and the names of others involved in the crime were listed in the court documents but are not available for public release.
The preliminary investigation revealed that David Charles stole human brain samples from long-dead psychiatric patients in Indiana Medical History Museum numerous times over the past year. The museum is on the grounds of a former state psychiatric hospital, Central State Hospital, which closed in 1994. The museum's director said the tissues are from autopsies spanning from roughly the 1890s to the 1940s.
David Charles faces charges of theft, marijuana possession and paraphernalia possession, according to court documents.
Whether others are facing charges remains unclear.