(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) -- At an arraignment hearing on Friday, Sept. 20, Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, will either accept a plea deal on state charges or proceed to trial. The arraignment on Friday is in relation to more than 200 criminal counts on the state level for corpse abuse, money laundering, theft, and forgery. The Hallfords were indicted in April on fraud charges—accused of misspending nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, jewelry, and other personal expenses. The 15 charges brought by the federal grand jury are separate from the state charges. The Hallfords were indicted after nearly 200 improperly stored bodies were discovered at the funeral home they owned in October 2023. The indictment alleges the Hallfords gave families dry concrete instead of cremated ashes and buried the wrong body on multiple occasions. The couple also allegedly collected more than $130,000 from families for cremations and burial services they never provided. The state’s plea offer to Carie is 190 counts of corpse abuse and a 15 to 20-year sentence in the Department of Corrections, concurrent to the federal sentence she receives. Jon faces the same counts for a total of 20 years also concurrent to his federal sentence. Funeral home victims react to state plea deal The idea of avoiding a trial with the plea deal doesn't sit well with some victims' families. “For them to be able to plea out is absolutely disgusting to me,” said Crystina Page, whose son was identified at the funeral home. The arraignment will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at the El Paso County Courthouse. FOX21 News will follow the hearing and provide updates as new information becomes available.