BRIGHTON, N.Y., April 14 (UPI) -- A human tissue recovery service branch manager charged with illegally harvesting bone and tissue from 29 bodies went on trial in New York Monday.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A former Brooklyn funeral home director has been sentenced to eight to 24 years in prison for participating in a body-snatching scheme.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Two brothers convicted of selling body parts from their funeral homes will each spend at least eight years in prison, a Philadelphia judge has ruled.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Two Philadelphia morticians have pleaded guilty to being part of a body-snatching ring that illegally harvested parts for surgical usage.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The mastermind behind nearly $4 million in illegal body parts sales has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against his Philadelphia mortician partners.

NEW YORK, June 28 (UPI) -- A dentist was sentenced Friday to 18 to 54 years in a New York prison for orchestrating a scheme to sell human tissue and body parts from funeral homes.

NEW YORK, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- A judge in New York has refused to allow prosecutors in Brooklyn to back out of a plea agreement with the mastermind of a body parts ring.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A judge has been assigned to a Philadelphia trial involving the alleged sale of body parts, after a search for a judge who hasn't golfed with the defendants.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Three Philadelphia funeral directors have been arrested on charges of conspiring to sell body parts, District Attorney Lynn Abraham said Thursday.