A Kansas man serving federal prison time for an illegal autopsy scheme has received a one-year prison sentence on state charges, authorities said Wednesday.
Shawn Parcells, 43, was ordered by a state court judge to serve a 12-month sentence in Wabaunsee County, west of Topeka, after serving nearly six years in federal prison on one count of electronic fraud.
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He was convicted in state court on three counts of misdemeanor criminal desecration and felony burglary, the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said. The sentence for the felony robbery conviction will run concurrently with Parcells’ federal sentence.
The 12 months he will serve after his time in federal prison ends stems from the criminal conviction for desecration.
Shawn Parcells speaks during a news conference in St. Louis County, Missouri on August 18, 2014. Parcells, a Kansas man who admitted to performing an illegal autopsy, has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for fraud. electronic. He was sentenced Tuesday to a year in prison on state charges, authorities said.
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
He is currently in a federal prison in Leavenworth.
Between 2016 and 2019, Parcells made more than $1 million from autopsies on more than 350 clients, most of which he did not perform, prosecutors said. He has no formal education in pathology.
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Parcells gained national attention in 2014 when he assisted a privately hired pathologist in the autopsy of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black youth from Ferguson, Missouri, who was fatally shot by a white police officer. The autopsy was commissioned by Brown’s family and no allegations of wrongdoing were filed in connection with it.
The conviction on state charges stems from three autopsies Parcells conducted in Wabaunsee County in 2014 and 2015.
