Johnson City Village Police Chief Brent Dodge held a press conference yesterday after a state audit found 26 items missing from the department’s evidence room. New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office found Johnson City village police failed to consistently and properly account for items in the property and evidence room due to inaccurate records, but Dodge said since the audit, police were able to locate nearly all of the items. All seven counterfeit $100 bills were located. The missing shotgun was really not missing. The missing vehicle was never removed from the evidence system. The only pieces of evidence that were not located were drugs taken from the homes of elderly people after they died. These errors occurred about eight years ago, when the department transferred its system from paper to digital. Johnson City was one of ten police agencies audited in New York, and the comptroller found that all had errors.
