Man Arrested For Stealing Body Parts

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California man accused of stealing heads and other human body parts from a local hospital and stashing them at his house, posted $10,000 bail over the weekend, police said on Monday.

A police spokesman in Davis, about 75 miles west of San Francisco, said David Lawrence Beale will enter a plea on Aug. 18 in a northern California court on charges he stole body parts, including two preserved human heads and a torso, with the intent to dissect or sell them.

Police suspect Beale, 46, stole the body parts out of curiosity. He was arrested on Friday.

Beale worked from 1991 to 2001 with a company that was contracted to transport human remains from the UC Davis Medical Center and a local coroner's office to a crematorium.

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