STORY: "Trial date set in case of UMass drug lab chemist Sonja Farak," by reporter Bob Dunn published in the Gazette on August 26, 2013;
GIST: "The
trial of Sonja Farak, the former state drug laboratory chemist accused
of evidence tampering and drug theft, is tentatively set to begin in
February. Farak, 35, of
Northampton, has pleaded not guilty to four counts each of evidence
tampering and larceny of a drug and two counts of possessing a class B
drug (cocaine). Alleged tampering in the
Amherst lab led a judge to allow retrials in at least nine Hampden
County cases for which Farak allegedly handled drug evidence........... Farak was arrested in
January after state police were contacted by the drug lab on the
University of Massachusetts campus about discrepancies in its drug
evidence inventory.
The Amherst Drug Laboratory was tasked with storing and analyzing substances seized by local and state police. The investigation into
the discrepancies led to allegations that Farak had tampered with four
drug samples at the lab. In two of those cases, Farak allegedly mixed
drug evidence samples with counterfeit drugs to hide the thefts, and in
two other cases samples were missing altogether, according to the
attorney general’s office."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.gazettenet.com/home/8224882-95/trial-date-set-in-case-of-umass-drug-lab-chemist-sonja-farak
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