Scary New Report: Texas Police Department Missing Guns & Drugs

Was recently returning home from a family vacation in Branson, Missouri by driving right by the Dallas, Texas suburb of DeSoto along Interstate 35E, and that is where this very scary new report originates. Their police department has a critical dilemma on their hands that includes thousands of missing items like guns and drugs from their evidence room.

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According to this CBS News Texas article, a former evidence clerk has now been arrested, but that comes about two years after the missing items were first reported, and after he had already been hired as the evidence clerk for another city's police force in the Dallas and Fort Worth Metro.

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After a full audit of the DeSoto evidence room, an inspector determined that the previous clerk, Carl Edmison, who ran the room for 6 years until 2022, had several improper handlings.

Scary New Report: Texas Police Department Missing Guns & Drugs

The DeSoto police had written Edmison a pristine letter of recommendation, and he was able to gain employment in a similar capacity with the Midlothian Police Department. DeSoto Police then had to reach out to Midlothian PD and inform them of their audit concerns, but he was not dismissed until he had first received nearly a year of paid leave.

Finally in spring of 2024, Edmison was reinvestigated and arrested for possessing items that were previously held in the DeSoto Police Department's evidence room.