Those Memphis Blues Again
The Memphis Police Department has good reason to be down in the dumps....State auditors have found that drugs, guns and money went out the property room door.
More than $2 million worth of cocaine along with 560 pounds of marijuana,
66 guns and a small fortune in cash vanished from the Memphis Police
property and evidence room, a state audit released Tuesday shows.
Federal prosecutors say the loot was carted out the property room's back
door and sold. Numerous city workers and accused drug dealers face federal charges. One Memphis lawyer has been charged with laundering profits through his firm. The comptroller's report found that property room accounting was so sloppythat the stolen amounts could even be higher than auditors suggested.
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