Evidence is building up in law enforcement agencies across the North Olympic Peninsula, leaving some departments wondering where to put all their seized and unclaimed goods.
Drugs, guns, stereos and bicycles are squeezed into storage areas that officials say are over capacities.
“It goes out by the envelope and comes in by the truckload,” Linda Reidel, property and evidence specialist with the Port Angeles Police Department, said this week of the growing piles of property in the station’s evidence room.
A crowded storage area does not compromise the evidence, but does require more time “to figure out where to get rid of something so you can get something else,” Reidel said.
Other agencies say they face the same problems finding space for the amounts of evidence recovered from arrests and investigations.
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