State Crime Lab Chemist Arrested For Tampering With Evidence, Drug Possession

[sekio]

Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Sunday, Sonja Farak, 35, of Northampton, was arrested Saturday night and charged with allegedly tampering with drug evidence, possessing class A drugs and possessing class B drugs.

Coakley said the two drugs were heroin and cocaine.

“These drugs were tested, they were tested fairly,” Coakley said. “The certificates were not impeached in any way but we allege for personal use, the drugs were then taken and in her possession or used.”

Farak is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Eastern Hampshire District Court.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/01/...-for-tampering-with-evidence-drug-possession/

Nice to see continuing responsibility by those responsible for the prosecution of drug crimes.

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Something similar came up in a lab somewhere in the northeast U.S, only in the instance in the U.S, the person was actually inflating busts by altering samples and falsifying information. I want to say it was Massachusetts.

 

[Venrak]

I remember that one. That was bad.

But this...If anything, she was removing weight from the packages of drugs - and then getting high at home or whatever.

Win/win?