Sheriff's Department Ignores Evidence?

HOUSTON - Long time fireman Richard Ford is the first to admit he's no cop. But he fears the Harris County Sheriff's Department might be ignoring possible evidence.

"I think the taxpayers in Harris County deserve more than that," Ford said.

Ford owns several acres of property and a huge metal building in Cypress.

"The lady next door she has a bunch of yard chickens somebody had killed them Saturday night," Ford said.

Those who killed the chickens Ford said might also be behind thousands of dollars in damage to his property. Almost every window was broken, several lights were smashed to pieces.

"Inside there's a vehicle that they smashed the windshield there's a prefect fingerprint on that," Ford said.

The thing that concerns Ford the most, someone could easily walk from the edge of his property and be in the Longwood subdivision. That's where a man broke into a home and sexually attacked a 15-year-old girl on Saturday.

"Which is a lot more important than this," Ford said.

Sheriff's deputies have a surveillance photo of a possible suspect. Still Ford said he was shocked that he could find no one with the sheriff's department interested enough to come out and lift fingerprints from his nearby property.

"And I thought well it will probably take the news media to get them to pay attention," Ford said.

FOX 26 contacted Harris County Sheriff's Lieutenant Ruben Diaz whose investigating the sexual attack. Diaz told us he doesn't believe the crimes are related but said they will be getting in contact with Ford to lift prints from his crime scene.