All the remains are linked to a Hayward mortuary which had its license suspended back in 2018, officials said.
The cremated remains of 154 people and another six bodies were recovered earlier this month from a warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward, authorities announced Friday.
Five of the six recovered bodies have been identified, the sheriff's office said in a news release. The owner of Oceanview Cremations, Robert Smith, has been unable to identify the sixth body, which came from Sonoma County, the sheriff's office said, stating that Smith was"not able to produce any viable information about the location of death or the next of kin." All six decedents were received by Oceanview in 2020 and 2021, the release said.
According to the sheriff's office, the coroner's bureau was not notified of Oceanview's 2018 suspension until Feb. 28 by the California Cemetery and Funeral Board.
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