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Second Mass. crime lab chemist accused of evidence tampering
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A chemist at a state crime lab tampered with drug evidence, authorities said Sunday in Massachusetts, where another chemist at a different lab was accused last year of faking test results in a scandal that threw thousands of criminal cases into question.
Sonja Farak, of Northampton, who works at a lab in Amherst, in western Massachusetts, removed a substance from a case file that tested positive for cocaine and replaced it with one that did not test positive, state Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
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Second Mass. crime lab chemist accused of evidence tampering
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A chemist at a state crime lab tampered with drug evidence, authorities said Sunday in Massachusetts, where another chemist at a different lab was accused last year of faking test results in a scandal that threw thousands of criminal cases into question.
Sonja Farak, of Northampton, who works at a lab in Amherst, in western Massachusetts, removed a substance from a case file that tested positive for cocaine and replaced it with one that did not test positive, state Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
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