Man Arrested For Stealing Human Brains, Selling Them On eBay

Is there anything you can’t buy on eBay?



A California man was arrested after allegedly
stealing human brain samples from a history
museum and selling them on the online auction
site.

David Charles, 21, was arrested in December
when officers received a call from a buyer who
became suspicious about six jars of brain tissue
he had bought on eBay.
It is claimed Charles broke into the Indiana
Medical History Museum on several occasions
and stole the brain samples from dead
psychiatric patients.
"A museum’s mission is to hold these materials
as cultural and scientific objects in the public
interest," the museum’s executive director,
Mary Nottage said.
"To have that disturbed — to have that broken —
is extraordinarily disturbing to those of us in the
museum field."
The buyer contacted the museum after he
spotted their labels on the container he bought
from a middleman on eBay.
Detectives traced the transactions and spoke to
the seller who said was given them by Mr
Charles.

"It is a peculiar situation," Indianapolis police
officer Christopher Wilburn said.