The Department of Justice Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program is sending $335,380 to the Sam Houston State University Rural Crime Laboratory.
The check for the rural crime lab — a partnership between SHSU, Walker County and the City of Huntsville — is part of $1 million secured by U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for the crime lab this fiscal year.
“These funds are vital to the local law enforcement community as Sam Houston State University’s crime lab will help give rural law enforcement access to cutting edge technology,” said Brady who calls this “another towards helping the region to get timely and accurate information to fight crime and skip over the long wait times in Houston or Dallas.”
The Rural Crime Lab at Sam Houston State will provide some of the most basic forensic needs of law enforcement agencies, working in the ten county area surrounding Huntsville, Texas.
The lab will provide services to local law enforcement such as identification of controlled substances, toxicology screening, and latent fingerprint analysis.
