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WILMINGTON — One month before a civil suit filed by a prior crime lab supervisor against local law enforcement goes to trial, the plaintiffs have submitted a…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Eight months after dismissing District Attorney Ben David from a lawsuit linked to the Wilmington Crime Lab, the same judge has re ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY – A judge has ordered top brass in local law enforcement and the district attorney’s office to reach a compromise in a lawsuit filed by a…

The civil suit claims top law enforcement officials downplayed issues at the crime lab and kept quiet about concerns over missing drugs. It also alleges discrimination against the former lab director, who testified during a criminal case about those concerns. The director then effectively lost her job when management of the drug lab was transferred from Wilmington to New Hanover County.

The former director of the Wilmington Police Department crime lab alleges that she was denied employment when the Sheriff’s Office took over the facility in 2019. The director claims this was retaliation, in direct response to her giving testimony under oath about concerns with the lab that authorities had not made public after WPD fired an ‘untruthful’ lab chemist.