SBI's new lab to serve 12 counties
Published: Thu, Jul. 17, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Jul. 17, 2008 01:05AM
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closeGREENSBORO -- The State Bureau of Investigation has opened a laboratory in Greensboro that will serve 12 counties and handle evidence for about 6,000 cases a year.
Fifteen chemists, latent analysts, computer forensic analysts and others initially will work in the 10,000-square-foot lab.
The News & Record of Greensboro reports the lab opened Tuesday with SBI Director Robin Pendergraft, Attorney General Roy Cooper and Guilford County Sheriff B.J. Barnes attending. Cooper says the lab will help get drug dealers, child predators and violent criminals off the streets faster.
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Lab workers will analyze drug chemistry, toxicology, latent evidence such as footprints or fingerprints that are not visible to the eye, and computer forensics.
Analysis of DNA, firearms and trace evidence will still be handled in Raleigh.
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