The owner of a Cloverport Funeral Home is facing a more than $500,000 penalty for performing nearly 300 illegal cremations.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office has been investigating Cloverport Funeral Home, Kentuckiana Funeral Services and the owner of the facilities, Anthony Oxendine, since January.
According to a news release from Coleman’s office, on January 2, the office received information that led to an investigation of Cloverport Funeral Home revealing that the facility had failed to register to operate a crematory and was providing cremation services without a license in violation of Kentucky law.
The investigation found the funeral home performed 290 illegal cremations without a license.
The attorney general’s office said Friday the Breckinridge Circuit Court has ordered the facilities, and Oxendine, to pay $580,000 for those illegal cremations.
The funeral home has been closed since the investigation began in January after Coleman secured a temporary restraining order.
Oxendine is also the former owner of Spring Valley Funeral Home in New Albany, Indiana, which recently had its license suspended after the state found “dangerous conditions” that posed a “clear and immediate danger to public health.”
An inspection of the funeral home found a strong smell of decomposition in the embalming room, a decedent who had passed away but sat unembalmed for 11 days, blood and other fluids on surfaces of the embalming room, among other issues.
Source: WDRB
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