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A Texas man has been charged with abuse of a corpse after he threw a bucket containing suspected human remains over a fence on the FBI’s Dallas field office and posted a video of it on YouTube, authorities stated.
Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, turned into arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of abuse of a corpse and tampering with proof, the Bartonville Police Division stated in a news unlock.
The investigation started March 16 when a Bartonville police officer responded to a name from Fry’s mother, who stated he asked her for money to pay for a U-Haul. When asked why, he stated he “had a physique that needed to be moved,” the doubtless reason affidavit stated.
Fry then grew to develop to be “irate” and left the dwelling, it stated. Rapidly in a while, the officer received recordsdata from Fry’s sister that he had “filmed himself on YouTube” on the Dallas FBI field office, the affidavit stated.
The video confirmed Fry throwing a immense, closed white bucket over the fence into the stable car parking lot of the FBI constructing, primarily primarily based on the affidavit.
Fry claimed in the video he turned into attempting to compel the FBI to intervene “in what he describes as wrongdoing by Denton County officials from a previous arrest,” the affidavit stated. It’s no longer clear what the alleged wrongdoing turned into.
An FBI special agent stated “the bucket contained a immense quantity of bones” that regarded to be human, per the affidavit. The bones predict extra forensic prognosis.
Fry had also posted but every other video on YouTube that confirmed what regarded to be a human skull at his Denton County dwelling.
The mum told police that she reward in her automobile’s GPS historical previous three searches for cemeteries — one in Arlington, Texas, and two in Oklahoma Metropolis. She also stated that she stumbled on a shovel that turned into never on the sphere earlier than and that her son had started to lock the shed on the benefit of the dwelling, which he didn’t produce beforehand, the affidavit stated.
In the investigation by Bartonville police and FBI agents, Fry turned into stumbled on to own posted videos online exhibiting separate human remains and an urn of ashes, authorities stated.
Investigators later sure that Fry had stolen an urn containing human remains from a cemetery in Oklahoma Metropolis — which turned into the topic of an Oklahoma Metropolis police investigation in February, primarily primarily based on Bartonville police.
FBI agents also stumbled on proof at a cemetery in Denton, Texas, “indicating that a coffin containing human remains had been removed from a mausoleum,” Bartonville police stated.
Officers did no longer report whom the remains had been of or why they take into consideration Fry might per chance presumably presumably also need centered them.
The case remains energetic, and subsequent of relations had been notified, police stated.
Fry remained in custody Sunday on a $30,000 surety bond, primarily primarily based on booking recordsdata. It’s now finally clear whether he has retained a attorney.
Fry had made headlines in the previous for ramming a truck into a KDFW-TV constructing in downtown Dallas in 2018. If that is the case, police sure Fry turned into upset a pair of 2012 police taking pictures in Denton County that killed his buddy. He apologized to the blueprint at some level of a court docket hearing, KDFW reported.
