STORY: "Bail revoked for former state drug chemist Sonja Farak after she tests positive for cocaine," by reporter Bob Dunn, published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette on December 23, 2013.
GIST: " Instead of spending the holidays with her family, former drug lab chemist Sonja Farak will spend the rest of 2013 in custody after violating her bail conditions. 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). Hampshire Superior Court Judge Mary-Lou Rup on Monday granted the prosecution’s request to revoke Farak’s bail after cocaine was found in her system during a random drug test. Farak was a chemist at the state drug lab on the University of Massachusetts campus until she was arrested in January after state police were contacted about discrepancies in its drug evidence inventory. Farak is accused of removing drug samples from the lab, replacing them with other materials and keeping the narcotics for her own personal use, according to Assistant Attorney General Beth Lux who appeared in Hampshire Superior Court Monday to argue for the revocation of bail......... According to Lux and the Probation Department, Farak submitted to a random drug screening on Monday as part of the conditions of release on $5,000 bail she posted at her arraignment in January in Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown. Farak’s drug test on Monday reacted positively for cocaine, according to Lux. Before testing, Farak denied having any drugs in her system, Lux said. When confronted with the positive result, Farak admitted to snorting “a few lines” of cocaine at a party the previous Friday night, according to Lux......... Farak will be held at the Western Mass Regional Women’s Correctional Center in Chicopee. She is expected to appear in court on Jan. 3 to enter a change of plea."
http://www.gazettenet.com/news/townbytown/northampton/9931572-95/bail-revoked-for-former-state-drug-lab-chemist-sonja-farak-after-she-tests-positive
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