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Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place looking over her grandchildren.
Then the FBI called.
It was 4 February 2024, and Johnson was teaching an eighth-grade gym class.
“Are you the son of Ellen Lopes?” a woman asked, Johnson recalled in an interview with the Associated Press.
