NEW YORK—New York police are getting more out of hand in how they do their work to “serve and protect” citizens. A coroner in Niagara County, in western New York allegedly took a piece of Roger Dunn’s body part following his death last year, involving a car accident in Cambria on April 13, 2012, for police canine training and now his parents are suing the officials in Niagara County.
Niagara County coroner Russell Jackman received Dunn’s body, then Jackman gave some of Dunn’s tissue to volunteer fire chief Vincent Salerno who was engaged in training a dog to track human remains.
It was then labeled by county officials as a “well-intentioned mistake,” but both Jackman and Salerno were charged because they did not follow “the legal means to obtain cadaver parts.”
Dunn’s parents suit that was filed stated that “the parents didn’t know until they heard media reports that Jackman had removed a piece of their son’s body tissue, which he gave to Salerno for use in training a dog to sniff out cadavers.”
Both men pled guilty to misdemeanors for their conduct and were sentenced to 100 hours of community service, for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, along with $1,000 in fines for each.