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A West Jordan woman has been charged with multiple felonies after attempting to move a dead man's body to California in a stolen car.

Cherie Ann Clark, 44, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with one count each of theft by receiving stolen property and abuse or desecration of a dead body, both second-degree felonies, and one count of obstructing justice, a third-degree felony.

Clark sold heroin and methamphetamine, court papers say, to Bryce Lowry in early October at her home on the 3200 block of West Brynwood Pine Bay in West Jordan.

Lowry died outside the home, so Clark and another man wrapped his body in a sheet and sleeping bag, and placed him inside his Jeep.

Clark then covered the body with her personal belongings, investigators say, and decided to use the incident as "an opportunity to take Bryce's jeep and move to California," according to court documents.

Clark left Utah on Oct. 4 with 25-year-old Joshua Lee Zobel, court papers say, but she didn't tell him about Lowry's body until the pair reached southern Utah. Zobel told investigators that after he learned Lowry's body was in the car, he and Clark planned how they would dispose of it.

Police on the Moapa River Reservation near Moapa, Nev., spotted the jeep on the afternoon of Oct. 5 and discovered the body during a search of the vehicle. That was the same day Lowry's family reported him missing to police. Lowry's family last saw him on Oct. 2, court papers say, when he left to go see Clark.

It's not clear from the court records whether an autopsy has been conducted to determine how Lowry died.

Salt Lake County prosecutors have charged Zobel with theft by receiving stolen property and abuse or desecration of a dead body, both second-degree felonies. The relationship between Zobel and Clark is not explained in court papers.

Court records suggest that Clark and Zobel are in custody in Nevada. Neither appears to be represented by an attorney.

A Utah judge issued arrest warrants for both of them Wednesday, but no hearings have been scheduled in their cases.