CLAREMONT — The longtime owner of a Claremont funeral home has been arrested and charged with operating without a permit and other violations, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced late Thursday.
James Roy, owner of Roy Funeral Home on Sullivan Street, was charged with one count of operating an unlicensed funeral home, two counts of making funeral arrangements without a license, one count of failure to transmit a death record, four counts of transporting a dead body without a burial permit, and three counts of unsworn falsification, the Attorney General’s Office said in a new release.
All the charges are class A misdemeanors, each punishable by up to 12 months in the House of Corrections and a $2,000 fine. Roy is scheduled to be arraigned in district court in Claremont on May 16.
The complaint alleges that Roy continued to operate his funeral business after the funeral home’s license and his funeral director license expired in 2021 and that he continued to accept new clients, failed to file a death certificate and generated counterfeit burial permits, according to the news release.
Roy, 65, has operated Roy Funeral Home since 1973, according to the business’s website.
Roy did not immediately return a message left for him at Roy Funeral Home on Thursday evening.