Alabama officials are waiting for complaints to be filed after the cremated remains of 13 people were reportedly found in a Mobile storage unit.

According to WKRG TV reports, a woman from Baldwin County purchased the contents of a storage unit at auction in Mobile only to discover the cremated remains of 13 people in the unit, with cremation dates ranging from 1992 to 2019.

The woman who purchased the contents, who asked not to be identified, told WKRG that she is trying to contact the families of the individuals whose remains were inside the storage unit. The unit reportedly belonged to a former funeral director before going up for auction.

The Alabama Board of Funeral Service, which licenses and regulates funeral businesses in Alabama, said it had been informed of the incident and will investigate if the families of the people whose remains were inside the storage units file complaints.

“None of the families have reached out to us to file a complaint,” the board’s executive director Charles Perine told AL.com. “That business is no longer in business, and the individual at this time is no longer licensed by the state, so we are waiting to hear from the families.”

Perine said that Alabama law allows funeral homes to dispose of cremains in a “dignified, legal and humane manner,” if the family has not contacted the funeral home within 60 days.

Perine said because the business that held these remains is no longer operating, he did not have access to information about whether arrangements had been made with the families of the people found in the storage unit.

There may also be criminal violations associated with the storage of human remains in the storage unit, Perine said, but that would have to be determined by the law enforcement agencies and the district attorney’s office. The funeral board does not have an enforcement component.

“We deal with administrative, not with criminal things, and so it has to go through the proper law enforcement in that county as well as the DA office in that county,” Perine said.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment on the matter.