Multnomah County sheriff, DA to ask for about $438,000 to support Kyron Horman inquiry
Oregonian - Updated: Monday, July 19, 2010, 1:35 PM
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton and Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk will ask the county this week for an additional $438,643 as a criminal inquiry into case of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman proceeds.
The proposal will go before the county board of commissioners on Thursday.
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The sheriff's office is requesting $242,609 to support the salary of a one-year investigative technician and for four months of overtime, from July through October.
In its request submitted to the board, the sheriff's office says it has generated over
3,000 leads that has filled up 38 four-inch binders, and has subpoenaed 200 sets of records, each record generating from 10 pages to hundreds of pages of paper records.
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A lead investigator, two detectives and an investigative technician are assigned to examine all these records. The sheriff's office is seeking overtime funding for these four positions for four months.
If the case were to come to a conclusion during this time, then the investigative technician's position would end, the sheriff's office said.
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"With a dozen staff and well over 1200 man-hours through July 9th, the office is in it for the long haul," the district attorney's office wrote to the board. "But this does take much needed resources away from working other cases that routinely come into the DA's office. If and when an arrest is made, the (work) continues for the DA office through the trial and penalty phases and will also require resources to coordinate the thousands of documents associated with the case."
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