A Las Vegas funeral home has been shut down after a regulatory board found that it was failing to cremate bodies for extended periods and failing to file death records in a timely manner.

The Nevada State Board of Funeral & Cemetery Services revoked the license of McDermott's Funeral Home and Cremation Services last week after alleging that it had not cremated or properly disposed of eight bodies "within a reasonable period of time," failed to file death records within the required number of days and, in one case, not initiated a death record.

Records show that one body was kept at the funeral home for over 10 months before being cremated.

In a phone interview Monday, owner Chris Grant said the cremation process for the eight bodies took so long because he was waiting for approvals from

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