From the Columbus Dispatch:

Though they said the turnaround times have improved, a handful of county prosecutors gathered at Ohio Republican Party headquarters yesterday to criticize Attorney General Richard Cordray’s crime lab as slow and inefficient.

“The delays at the state crime lab have gotten to the point that if we have a suspect in custody on drug charges, we either have to pay the Newark crime lab to do the testing, or we have to basically let that suspect out of custody,” said David Landefeld, Fairfield County prosecutor.

“We need our drug-test results in a speedy fashion, and regrettably we haven’t been able to get that.”

Landefeld later said lab times have improved under Cordray, but he does not think they meet the “gold standard” set by Republican Betty Montgomery when she was attorney general from 1995 to 2001.

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