A grant program designed to enhance the accuracy and completeness of the state’s criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices courts across Ohio will use to capture defendants’ fingerprints for submission to the database. Among the recipients is the Marion County Common Pleas Court Family Division. “Fingerprints are a critical piece of the puzzle […]
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Sen. Tester asks Congress to fund installation of border fentanyl scanners that now sit idle
As millions of dollars in fentanyl scanning equipment intended for the southern border sits unused, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is blaming Republicans and asking congressional appropriators to approve the money needed to install the machines in this year’s homeland security funding bill. Tester says Republicans who killed the bipartisan border security bill this year should […]
Scanners that spot fentanyl sit unused because Congress hasn’t provided cash to install them
Customs and Border Protection has spent millions on the most up-to-date high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the southern U.S. border, but many scanners are sitting in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them, acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller told NBC News. Miller gave NBC News a tour of a port of […]
Gun found in student’s bag at North Meck High. Why didn’t body scanners didn’t catch it?
A student brought a stolen, loaded gun to school. Body scanners didn’t catch it — police did. North Mecklenburg High School confirmed Huntersville Police Department officers found the gun in a backpack after a fight broke out on campus Tuesday. Huntersville Police found a loaded, stolen gun in a North Mecklenburg High student’s backpack following […]
County Commission okays money for use toward new body scanners at the Mower County Jail
Jan. 23—The Mower County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday morning approved $5,000 to be put toward hiring a consultant in helping the Mower County Jail install and learn to operate two scanners that will be an unobtrusive way to determine if contraband is being brought into the jail. The consultant, hired through, Quality Radiologic Consultants, […]