The former funeral home operator who went on the run after police discovered a dead body and dozens of cremated remains in his rental home was arrested by Englewood police officers late Thursday night.
Miles Hartford, 33, is currently in custody at the Arapahoe County Detention Center, according to a Friday.
Hartford was arrested on suspicion of abuse of a corpse, forgery and theft, according to the police department.
The former funeral home operator first popped up on the Denver Police Department’s radar after he was evicted from his rental home in early February and 29 boxes of cremated remains were found in a crawl space while sheriff’s deputies were cleaning out the house, according to the arrest warrant.
Investigators also found the body of a woman who had been dead for more than a year and additional urns with cremains in a hearse parked at the property, according to a .
On Feb. 16, Denver police officials said Hartford was cooperating with the investigation, but on Thursday the police department .
Hartford owned Apollo Funeral and Cremation Service, a business with a Littleton mailing address that has been closed since September 2022.
Police recovered 35 temporary urns of cremains from the home and the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner has been able to tentatively identify 18 of them, according to an arrest affidavit.
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