Rep. Proposes Creative Way to Save Cold Case Unit

New Hampshire's Cold Case Unit will lose its funding on June 30, and State Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton, would like to use some of the money made from selling assets seized in drug cases to save a needed facet of Granite State law enforcement, according to the Hampton Union.

The paper has reported that the grant funding for the unit, founded in 2009, will dry up in about four months, and that the House will vote on Cushing's legislation, House Bill 661, on Tuesday. The Hampton Union has also reported that Cushing's bill proposes 10 percent of all funds generated by selling seized assets go into a newly-created cold case homicide unit fund after reducing both the amount of money received by the local department responsible for the drug seizures and the money allocated into the state revolving drug fund.