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Little headway made on new Nassau crime lab

The Nassau County Crime Lab in Mineola. (December

Photo credit: NCPD | The Nassau County Crime Lab in Mineola. (December 2010)

Nassau has spent almost $2 million on the out-of-state testing of drugs in the wake of the shutdown of the county's police crime lab.

After faulty evidence testing prompted Nassau officials to close the lab on Feb. 18, 2011, they tapped the medical examiner's office, instead of the police, to test criminal evidence.

However, while the medical examiner's office is already testing bodily...

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