The Bexar County Criminal Investigation Lab has three sections: firearms, drug seizures, and DNA.

All three have backlogged cases, which have been unworked after 30 days.

KSAT is looking into each of those three backlogs in detail, figuring out why they exist and what’s being done about them.

The backlog in the drug seizure department has its own specific causes, and it has to do with the types of drugs being seized.

“All the sludges, slimes, pills, powders, anything suspected of being a controlled substance, is submitted to us for analysis,” said lab director Orin Dym.

Dym describes the backlog in the drug seizure department as a rollercoaster.

“For a long time here, we’re relatively good at what we’re turning around, and then we see an increase, and then it bolts up,” he said.

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