A former Lake County coroner was sentenced to 180 days in jail Thursday, Feb. 2nd, related to mishandling the corpse of a stillborn baby in his funeral home.
47-year-old Shannon Kent pleaded guilty in December of 2022 to two misdemeanor counts of unlawful cremation acts.
Kent was elected as Lake County coroner in 2014 and resigned in April of 2021. He and his wife operated multiple funeral homes in the Leadville and Silverthorne areas.
Kent was found guilty of second-degree official misconduct in 2021 and received six months unsupervised probation. In 2022, Kent and his wife were found not guilty of charges related to the handling of the remains of a truck driver who died in 2020.
