Live PD and Live Rescue are both fucking insane shows. "Hey I stopped you over for this busted taillight." two minutes later "So luckily we were able to recover 62 pounds of cocaine with cartel identifiers from this truck"
They also destroy evidence apparently
Too familiar a story. This pains me. A&E didn't bother keeping it because investigators "didn't ask." Investigation concluded, and the story ends there until someone causes enough of a stir to take a second look at what happened when some or all of the evidence is long gone. Good to see ya btw taco.
It's shitty but not at all surprising. The people who work on A&E shows are paid-nothing scrappers who don't hang onto the media and once stuff has aired you recycle the media. If the DA wanted the media they basically needed to grab it on the day because by tomorrow it's been written over unless a whole bunch of conscientious people go "this may get me in real trouble with the cops whom I have seen murdering people, this may get me blackballed from working ever again, this will undoubtedly get me accused of theft, but I'm going to tuck this drive into my pocket and hang onto it in case someone makes a play for justice." I'll say this. That person is a lot more likely to act now than he was in March. It's the shittiest kind of progress.