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Sex toys, guns walked away from Houston police evidence room

After more than 30 guns went missing from the Houston PD property room, General Counsel Craig Ferrell said this spring that ""We feel all the holes in security have been closed and the property room is safe."Unfortunately, Mr. Ferrell spoke too soon. Now we learn that $50,000 worth of sex toys seized from an adult video store also went missing from the property room. In February, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Texas' statute (pdf) banning sex toys unconstitutional, and in May an attorney for the store requested the return of the items in writing.From these incidents it's clear a comprehensive outside audit of the HPD property room is long overdue. HPD said this evidence was destroyed, but there was no destruction order so if that happened somebody violated department policy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).