by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
November 26, 2025
The funeral dwelling has lately had its enterprise license revoked as nicely.
A Houston funeral house is underneath investigation after a number of individuals accused it of id theft. Police additionally state that the administrative center had its license revoked lately.
In line with KHOU, the venue, A Group Funeral Residence, has had a number of households state that their deceased family members’ identities have been stolen, and there was fraudulent use of credit score and cost playing cards and accounts. The Houston Police Division (HPD) additionally said that throughout the investigation of the claims, it was found that the funeral dwelling was working with out a license.
Upon discovering that revelation, the HPD issued a search warrant.
When law enforcement officials arrived to implement the warrant, an energetic funeral was underway. Police needed to discover one other particular person to officiate the ceremony so they may proceed with the search of the institution.
“After they served the search warrant, they collected monetary data and computer systems and that sort of stuff,” HPD Lt. Larry Crowson mentioned.
The Texas Funeral Service Fee mentioned the enterprise license expired on Aug. 31.
The enterprise proprietor has not been charged and was launched pending additional investigation.
Whereas looking out the funeral dwelling, investigators didn’t discover some other our bodies, however did discover a number of cremated stays. Police are working to determine the stays to allow them to contact the households to have them returned to them.
“This can be a monetary crime. These will be very in-depth investigations. You understand, you must do principally an accounting investigation of the place the cash went and what sort of data have been used. So, it might take some time to research precisely who was liable for the id theft,” Lt. Crowson mentioned.
Courtroom data reveal that, in August, the funeral dwelling proprietor was charged with forging a fraudulent lien settlement. Allegedly, a signature was solid to carry out development on the property and to keep away from eviction. The proprietor was arrested in early November and is scheduled to look in court docket in January on a misdemeanor forgery cost.
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