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COPYRIGHT 2005 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: ERIN NEFF, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Three managers in the state's criminal history repository unit resigned late last year amid allegations they used surplus state equipment to assist family members opening private, for-profit fingerprinting businesses that link to official public safety records.
A source in the Nevada Highway Patrol said two live-scan fingerprinting computers, originally purchased new for a total of about $80,000 through a federal grant, were taken from state inventory and used to open the businesses in Las Vegas and Reno.
The source said the surplus was left over from equipment purchased with roughly $1.5 million in federal grants distributed to state and law enforcement agencies in Nevada's 17 counties.
"It may be surplus, but I don't think it was right to take it, and I think the department is trying to push this under the rug," the source said.
Paul Quade, an attorney for one employee, said that no theft occurred and that the surplus equipment was loaned to the Reno business in accordance with Department of Public Safety practices.
Quade said the matter was the subject of investigation, which he...
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