Henry Reid, the former director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program, was sentenced to four years and four months in state prison on Friday, according to university police officials.
The case was part of a years-long investigation over the sale of body parts from the Willed Body Program, UCPD Capt. John Adams said.
Reid pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit grand theft in October, according to Daily Bruin archives. He was hired in May 1997 as the director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program. He was accused of selling body parts to Ernest Nelson, another defendant in the case, from 1999 to 2004.
Reid, a 58-year-old Anaheim resident, will also be required to pay $500,000 in restitution to the UCLA School of Medicine, according to an e-mailed statement from Karl T. Ross, the chief of university police.
UCLA’s Willed Body Program was founded in 1950 and was the first in the nation. It receives around 175 bodies each year, and 11,000 people are typically willing to provide their bodies for research, according to the archives.
The two conspired to defraud UCLA of its donor bodies for financial gain, according to an Oct. 17 statement by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office.
UCPD investigated the case along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and the FBI.
The case took a long time to sort out because of the large amount of complicated evidence, according to Bruin archives.
Adams said the investigation is still ongoing, because Nelson, has not been sentenced yet. Nelson’s sentencing date is set for April 20.