Tri-County Regional Forensic screws up DWI testing

Ajay Talam

​If you did time for a DWI in Anoka, Sherburne, or Wright Counties this year, there's a chance that you were wrongly convicted by bad lab-work.

KSTP has gotten its hands on a letter from the Tri-County Regional Forensic laboratory that says that because of "miscalculations" in their urine testing, blood-alcohol levels were reported as being a third higher than they were in reality.

As a result of the error, some people driving under the limit may have been bumped up to DWI violations, while those actually over the limit could have had their penalties increased.

This latest news comes after word last week that there are problems with at least some of the breath-testing machines the state has long relied on.