Snowballing-out-of-control’: How the price rose by millions on Salem police headquarters

Deputy Police Chief Steve Bellshaw, right, leads a tour of Salem Police Department’s future headquarters on Aug. 2, 2019. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter)

Ricardo Becerril looks at cabinets not as new police storage but pieces to a $58 million puzzle he’s trying to finish.

He’s key to Salem’s ability to control costs that have soared by millions of dollars for the new downtown headquarters for the Salem Police Department.

And that’s where the cabinets come in.