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Reports Scott Goldstein at the Dallas News: At the Dallas CityStore, customers can find affordable furniture, bikes, electronics and other merchandise from the police property room and other city departments. But a city employee was recently surprised to stumble upon a different product: 123 bags of illegal drugs mistakenly shipped over in a file cabinet by the Dallas Police Department Property Unit. "It was a terrible oversight," said Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a department spokesman. "We're going to see where we went wrong and try to fix that problem." Okay, why don't you do that?Related:Sex toys, guns walk away from Houston evidence roomNueces County cleaning up evidence room mess; how many others are just as bad?Police evidence rooms are 'red-headed stepchildren' of law enforcement, Integrity Unit toldGalveston, Brazoria Counties react wisely by dismissing cases after evidence theftsEvidence retention failures thwart pursuit of innocence claimsEnough weapons missing from Houston's property room for a 21-gun salutecontinue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).