A Texas man was arrested for dumping suspected human remains at the FBI office – National

A man in TEXAS is facing charges of abuse of a corpse after posting a YouTube video of himself dumping suspects human remains over a fence and toward FBI headquarters in Dallas, authorities said.

Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, was arrested by officers of the Bartonville Police Department and by special agents and task force officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on March 18. He was charged with two counts of abuse of a corpse, according to police. news release.

Fry was detained after officers received reports of suspicious activity at his residence. The reporting party said Fry had asked for money to rent a U‑Haul in order to “move a body,” the news release said.

Shortly thereafter, investigators received information from the FBI indicating that Fry had thrown a bucket of human bones over the fence of the Dallas FBI office.

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by NBC NewsFry had become “angry” and had left his home. A short time later, an officer received word from Fry’s sister that he had “filmed himself on YouTube” while at the FBI office in Dallas.

The footage showed Fry throwing a large white bucket over the fence of the grounds office and into the parking lot, US media said.

Fry reportedly said in the video that he disposed of the suspected human remains in an attempt to persuade the FBI to intervene in allegations of wrongdoing by Denton County officials from a previous arrest, the affidavit said. He did not specify the wrongdoing Fry was referring to.

During the investigation, police said Fry was found to have posted videos online “depicting distinctive human remains” and an “urn of ashes” said to have been taken from his home.

Investigators later determined that Fry had stolen an urn containing human ashes from a cemetery in Oklahoma City, OK. The Oklahoma City Police Department had an active case from February related to the theft, police said.

Additionally, FBI agents found evidence at a cemetery in Denton, Texas, “indicating that a casket containing human remains had been removed from a mausoleum,” authorities added.

That investigation is ongoing, police said.

Fry has an extensive criminal history. In 2018, he was arrested for driving a truck into a KDFW-TV building in Dallas. Police later determined he was angry about the 2012 police shooting that killed his friend.

According to Denton County Jail records, Fry has been arrested more than 24 times over the past two decades on charges including assault and battery, possession of alcohol by a minor, driving with an invalid license, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, terroristic threats, theft, theft of property, criminal mischief and resisting arrest, among others.

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