Nassau tab for drug-evidence tests: $1M
Photo credit: NCPD | An undated file photo from the forensic evidence lab at Police Department headquarters in Mineola.
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The Nassau police crime lab scandal has cost the county about $1 million so far as it continues to ship old and new drug evidence out of state for forensic testing.
The county has paid NMS Labs in Willow Grove, Pa., $916,190 for work once done at the police lab since County Executive Edward Mangano closed the Nassau facility last February.
About $450,000 of the total paid by Nassau to...
