HOUSTON – The Houston Police Department served a search warrant at a Houston funeral home after the owners are accused stealing the identities of the deceased and operating the business without a license.

About 20 HPD officers showed up to the Community Funeral Home, located at 2517 Wheeler Street, on Friday to serve the warrant, which is apart of an ongoing investigation.

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Police said as the warrant was being served, a funeral was going on. The funeral had to be stopped and moved to another funeral home.

One of the owners was detained at the scene.

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No bodies were found in the building, only a few cremations were recovered.

At the scene, KPRC 2’s photographer Michael Edison w

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