A former UCLA official and an associate were arrested Wednesday on charges that they illegally sold parts of bodies donated for research in a scheme that produced more than $1 million in profits.After years of investigation by campus police, Henry Reid, 57, former director of the Willed Body Program, was arrested at his Anaheim home. Ernest Nelson, 49, and an associate of Reid's, was taken into custody in Rancho Cucamonga.
Authorities say the scam took place between May 7, 1999, and Feb. 26, 2004. Bodies donated to the university were supposed to be used for medical study and research. Prosecutors said that instead, Reid made $43,000 by selling remains to Nelson, who operated Empire Anatomical Co.
Nelson, in turn, is suspected of making more than $1 million by selling hundreds of body parts to more than 20 private medical, pharmaceutical and hospital research companies.
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