Gordon Mortuary

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Carver Mortuary in South Salt Lake underwent an 11-day emergency shutdown in November 2017 by the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing and was allowed to resume operations under terms of a five-year probation.The mortuary closed in 2018 and the Salt Lake County Attorney’s Office filed criminal charges against the owner, two managers and an employee.The mortuary held contracts with public and private entities for cremations. Clients included the Utah Department of Corrections, Salt Lake County, the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner and Intermountain Medical Center.Tanner Carver, the mortuary’s owner, pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to three misdemeanor counts of unlawful and unprofessional conduct in return for dismissal of 14 other counts. On Oct. 12 this year, Judge Royal Hansen sentenced him to three one-year jail terms but suspended the terms.Hansen fined Carver $1,000, ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service and serve two years’ probation.Court records said Carver, 35, lived in Spanish Fork but has since moved to Texas, where his family has interests in other mortuary businesses.Michael Deacon Jones, 40, a Carver Mortuary manager, pleaded guilty to a charge of removing items from human remains and two counts of unlawfully preparing a body for burial. Five other charges were dismissed.Salt Lake County prosecutors alleged Jones in June 2017 sold 14.4 grams of 10 karat gold scrap, 41.2 grams of dental gold and 3.1 grams of palladium scrap. He received $1,000 from a recycler for the metals.In a probable cause statement, a police investigator said a photo showed the gold scrap “does not appear to be melted down; rather it looks like intact crowns that have been removed from a person’s mouth.”Hansen sentenced Jones on Nov. 20 of this year to three one-year jail terms but suspended all but five days of incarceration. He fined Jones $13,875 but suspended the fines, and told Jones he would face an undetermined restitution payment amount.Jones was put on 12 months of court probatio...