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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Wed Dec 14, 2022, 08:04 AM Dec 2022

30 years worth of evidence, including DNA, possibly destroyed in NYPD storage facility blaze

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-evidence-fire-brooklyn-erie-basin-auto-pound/

30 years worth of evidence, including DNA, possibly destroyed in NYPD storage facility blaze

BY GINA MARTINEZ
DECEMBER 13, 2022 / 8:05 PM / CBS NEWS

Evidence, including DNA and items collected from crime scenes, dating back up to 30 years may have been destroyed in a 3-alarm fire that overtook a New York City Police Department storage facility in Brooklyn. Eight people suffered minor injuries, fire officials said.

The blaze erupted around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Erie Basin Auto Pound, a facility in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood where the NYPD stores evidence, FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens said in a press conference.

According to NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, the building was a police department pound that stored "a lot of biological evidence" as well as e-bikes and cars.

"DNA, things from past crimes, burglaries, shooting incidents, we have some biological evidence here as well," Maddrey said at the press conference. "It's mainly evidence, but we store other things there as well."

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30 years worth of evidence, including DNA, possibly destroyed in NYPD storage facility blaze (Original Post) sl8 Dec 2022 OP
That's not good. 2naSalit Dec 2022 #1
It may be good for someone. jaxexpat Dec 2022 #3
What items... FeelingBlue Dec 2022 #2
+1 2naSalit Dec 2022 #4
Eric's trike e'bike. 3Hotdogs Dec 2022 #5

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)
5. Eric's trike e'bike.
Wed Dec 14, 2022, 08:44 AM
Dec 2022

The one where they forgot to put the battery in, so's he has to peddle the big front wheel around his mom's grave in Bedminster.

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