The Bexar County Criminal Investigation Lab is experiencing backlogs in its DNA, firearms and drug analysis sections. KSAT found that cases in all categories remain unworked after 30 days.

KSAT’s Courtney Friedman started with a deep dive into the firearms backlog, which has been increasing for years.

When crimes involving weapons occur in our community, the evidence ends up at the Bexar County Criminal Investigation Lab.

“It is firearms, bullets, cartridge cases, weapons, and it could be tool marks,” lab director Orin Dym said. “If someone were to take a pair of channel locks and pry off a doorknob to break into a place, the marks left behind on that doorknob can be identified to the tool.”

Dym said it takes a very specific person to analyze all the firearms and testify in court durin

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