Tag: lab fraud
By Jeralyn, Section Misconduct
Posted on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 07:08:11 PM EST
Tags: lab fraud (all tags)
Posted on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 07:08:11 PM EST
Tags: lab fraud (all tags)
If you're going to be a police crime lab technician whose drug-testing work can put people in jail, it's probably not a good idea to be stealing and sampling the merchandise, i.e., the seized drugs.
Deborah Madden, age 60, a San Francisco crime lab tech for 29 years, has not been charged with a crime. But suspicions she stole and used cocaine from drug evidence have caused
San Francisco to dismiss 25 drug cases.
Madden abruptly retired Dec. 8 after 29 years on the job and has been in treatment recently for drug and alcohol use, officials said. She left the crime lab shortly after an audit discovered that drug evidence was missing, officials said.
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