A 52-year-old Florida woman was arrested for allegedly buying and selling human bones online. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona is facing charges for trading in human tissue, according to police.
A curio shop owner was arrested for allegedly selling “genuine human remains” online, attempting to pass them off as “educational models.”
According to local outlet Daytona Beach News-Journal, police became aware of 52-year-old Kymberlee Schopper’s illegal business at the end of 2023 after a local woman reported that Schopper was posting listings for bone fragments explicitly identified as “human” on Facebook Marketplace.
She was released from the Volusia County Jail on a $7,500 bond.
The listings included things like: two skull fragments for $90, a clavicle and scapula for $90, a rib for $35, a vertebrae for $35 or a partial skull for $600, per an arrest affidavit obtained by local outlet WOFL.
Police interviewed Schopper’s business partner, Ashely Lelesi, who allegedly told officers that the pair’s shop, Wicked Wonderland, had sold human bones for years.
She reportedly said she did not know it was against the law.
The investigation began after a tip about human bones being sold on Facebook Marketplace.
Schopper was charged with the purchase or sale of human tissue, with local outlets reporting that Lelesi could also face charges.
