A Las Vegas funeral home has been shut down after a finding that it was failing to cremate bodies for extended periods of time and failing to submit death records.

McDermott’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services was closed down by the Nevada State Funeral Board this month for not cremating or properly disposing of eight bodies “within a reasonable period of time,” failing to submit death records and, in one case, not initiating a death record.

In some cases, death records were not submitted for four months and bodies were kept at the funeral home for over 10 months before being cremated.

“We apologize, but, due to licensing issues, McDermott’s is, currently, unable to operate,” said McDermott’s in its Google listing, which also marks the funeral home as “permanently closed.”

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