DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) — The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after evidence envelopes were found discarded near the Great Miami River in downtown Dayton.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said it became aware of the envelopes after a video showing them began circulating on social media.<\/p>\n
Deputies with the Forensic Services Unit collected the materials and determined the property inside the envelopes was no longer needed because the associated criminal cases had been closed.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, the materials had previously been discarded in a dumpster at its headquarters building.<\/p>\n
The dumpster is typically locked until it is emptied by the waste carrier. Investigators believe someone entered the dumpster and removed the discarded envelopes.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said removing discarded materials from a dumpster is not, by itself, considered illegal.<\/p>\n
Deputies are now working to determine how the envelopes ended up near the Great Miami River and identify the person responsible for leaving them there.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information about the circumstances surrounding the envelopes is asked to contact Deputy Jackson at 937-781-3048.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) — The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after evidence envelopes were found discarded near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-406031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}