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FUNERAL HOME IN FLINT.
>> MANY FAMILIES HAVE BEEN
DEMANDING ANSWERS SO WE ARE
DIGGING DEEPER TO FIND THEM.
7 ACTION NEWS REPORTER HEATHER
CATALLO HAS BEEN POURING OVER
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS FUNERAL
HOME THAT GOES BAC
WAY BACK TO 20. DESPITE
THESE, DOZENS OF COMPLAINTS, IT
TOOK THE STATE FIVE YEARS TO E
RECEIVED FROM SWANSON FUNERAL
MOER.
>> YOU STAND BY YOUR LOVED ONE,
EVEN IN DEAT
PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 7, 2012.
PATRICIA SAYS HER MOTHER'S
HOSPICE CAREGIVERS RECOMMENDED
SWANNEARLY
SHE COULD NOT GET A STRAIGHT
ANSWER ABOUT WHETHER THE BODY
HAD ALREADY BEEN SENT TO TRI-
NOT.
>> SHE WAS NOITING FOR
ANSWERS, PATRICIA AND HER DAD
WENT TO SWANSON'S IN PERSON,
HOPING TO TALK TO THENOT MAKE TOO
MUCH NOISE.>> Reporter: AFTER
AN HOUR AND A HALF IN THE BACK
ROOM, WE STARTED POUNDING ON
THE DOOR SAYING LET US OUT OF
HERERIPPED UP.
THERE WERE COCKROACHES ON THE
WALL
HORRIBLE MISTAKE.
MYRNA'S DEATH.
THE FAMILY FINALLY RECEIVED
SOME ASHES FROM SWANSON'S.>>
>> INSIDE THE BAG WAS A PLASTIC
BAG WITH ASHES WITH A BREAD TIE.
POLICE, THE GOVERNOR, THE
GENESEE COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S
OFFICE IN MICHIGAN'S DEPARTMENT
OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY
AFFAIRS KNOWN AS LARA.
>> DO YOU THINK THE STATIS NOT ONLY OUR FAMILY.
WHO KNOWS WHO THESE PEOPLE
BURIED.
WHO KNOWS WHO THEY PUT IN THE
OFFICE.
THE COMPLAINTS WERE ABOUT
EVERYTHING FROM PEOPLE WORKING
ON BODIES WITH NO PROTECTIVE
TIMES SINCE 2012.
THEY WERE ISSUED 16 CITATIONS
AND FIND A $38,100.
AT THE SAME TIME, OTHER
INSPECTORS FROM LAURAAT IN
THE FUNERAL HOME WERE FINED
$10,000 FOR THAT.
SWANSON'S WAS ALLOWED TO STAY
OPEN, EVEN AFTER GETTING THIS
COMPLAINT ING BODIES AT THE
FUNERAL HOME GARAGE UNTIL THEY
ROT AWAY. THEN HE RTS A U-
TRANSFERS THEM TO ANOTHER
LOCATION TO CONTINUE TO ROT
AWAY SAID THEY AGAIN
FOUND DECOMPOSING BODIES IN A
MAGGOT INFESTED GARAGE THAT HAD
BEEN THERE FOR MONTHSSWANSON
FUNERAL HOMES IN DETROIT IN
PONTIAC AND SAYS HE HAS NO
LEGAL CONNECTION TO THE FLINT
LOCATION.
AS FOR THE DUFFER'S, THEY WANT
WITH THEM WITHOUT
FOLLOWING THE RULES OF LAW.
>> Reporter: IN ADDITION TO
THISONGOING STATE PROBE INTO
HEALTH CODE AND LICENSING
VIOLATIOCRIMINAL
CHARGES CAN BE PURSUED.
I'M HEATHER CATALLO, 7 ACTION
NEWSDO HAVE A DETAILED
EXPLANATION OF THE
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