A federal investigation continues into who dumped more than 300 piles of human remains in the desert south of Las Vegas, as a Nevada funeral home stepped up this week to recover them.

The probe follows the discovery of cremated remains by a person who “stumbled on the piles on July 28 in a desert area outside of Searchlight. Searchlight is a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley off U.S. 95.”

In August, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) official confirmed the piles were human “cremains” and that the department was actively investigating.

According to Las Vegas CBS affiliate 8News Now, which broke the story:

There is no law in Nevada barring a person from scattering ashes on public land. State law requires funeral operators to preserve the “dignity” of any remains

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