As the family was trying to plan Aranda's funeral, they were delayed for three days before the funeral home could pick up his body. Finally, the Department of Correction said it was waiting for the State Police to fingerprint Aranda. His grandfather, Jack Roche, was angry. "Fingerprints?! I can tell you who he is, I'm his grandfather!" he says he told them.

Aranda, 27, was serving a year in a county jail for minor charges.