Reality Check: How Asheville Police Department solved their evidence room issues

Resolving the issue has spanned three different police chiefs. However, Chief Tammy Hooper reports the evidence room is cleaned up and fully inventoried. November 29, 2017ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The criminal justice system relies on evidence, yet Asheville Police...

Greenville police officer arrested after $60 stolen from car he searched (body cam)

November 21, 2017GREENVIILLE, NC – A Greenville police officer was arrested Tuesday afternoon after $60 was stolen from a car he searched.Officer Alec Smith, 23, was charged with misdemeanor larceny.Greenville police officers were called to the Rodeway Inn on...

Former NC sheriff’s captain accused of taking cash from evidence safe

The arrest is a result of a State Bureau of Investigation probe into evidence that was missing from the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office June 9, 2017WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) — A former captain with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office has been accused of...

Former Iredell deputy sentenced to probation in evidence theft case

Instead of leaving the pistols in the sheriff’s office evidence room, he signed them in and took them for himself, May 24, 2017he former Iredell deputy charged with taking two pistols he seized during an investigation pleaded no-contest Wednesday to larceny and...

CMPD’s Lost and Found: a ham and a tombstone

Shotguns, bikes, drugs, a ham and a coffin: just a few of the items at CMPD’s Property Control Room when this story was written in 1982. The department was responsible for the safekeeping of evidence, lost items and recovered stolen things. April...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police to eliminate backlog of untested rape kits by summer

Like most police agencies across the country, the department found itself with a large backlog of untested kits, “as best practices and the department’s policies for testing sexual assault evidence evolved,” the city of Charlotte said this week in...