Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says former Wabaunsee County coroner Shawn Parcells can no longer do business in Kansas.
Schmidt says Parcells and three corporate entities under Parcells’ control, Parcells Forensic Pathology Group LLC, ParCo-Parcells and Company LLC and National Autopsy and Tissue Recovery Services, have to pay over $250,000 in restitution to over 80 customers as related to private autopsy services. Parcells and the corporations have other financial penalties as well — $200,000 for violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, $200,000 for violating the Kansas False Claims Act, almost $50,000 to Wabaunsee County in damages and $60,000 in investigative and receivership fees.
The judge in the case also banned Parcells and his businesses from doing any business when it comes to services relating to the human body, services regulated as healing arts and from filing claims against any political subdivisions.
This is the latest chapter in a case beginning in 2019, when Schmidt accused Parcells of failing to conduct coroner-ordered autopsies in accordance with state law. Schmidt also accused Parcells of doing private autopsies without licensed pathologists either supervising the procedures or in attendance for them.
Parcells was convicted last year of felony theft and misdemeanor criminal desecration in Wabaunsee County. Sentencing has not yet taken place.
