The plan for a focused crime lab run by Shelby County government
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy have plans for a locally run crime lab. (Mike Groll/AP Photo file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy have plans for a limited local crime lab that could be housed within the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center.
Harris and Mulroy presented the proposal Wednesday, June 4, to the Shelby County Commission’s budget subcommittee at an estimated annual cost of $5.5 million.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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