Posts tagged san francisco police
June Trial Date Set In SF Crime Lab Drug Theft Case
Feb 3rd
A federal judge in San Francisco has set a trial date of June 18 for a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of stealing cocaine from the facility.
Former SF police lab tech faces June trial for cocaine theft charge
Feb 3rd
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday set a trial date of June 18 for a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of stealing cocaine from the facility. Deborah Madden, 61, was indicted in December on a federal charge of obtaining cocaine by subterfuge in 2009. The charge carries a possible maximum sentence of four years in prison if she is convicted. The date for the ...
Bail granted to ex-lab tech accused of stealing drugs from SF crime lab
Dec 9th
A former San Francisco Police Department laboratory technician who is accused of obtaining cocaine by subterfuge was granted bail on a $25,000 bond at a hearing in federal court in The City on Friday. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo, was allowed by U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Laporte to remain free on an unsecured $25,000 personal bond while awaiting her not-yet-scheduled trial. Laporte also ...
Feds indict former SFPD drug-lab technician
Dec 2nd
A former civilian technician at the San Francisco Police Department's crime laboratory was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges she skimmed cocaine from the lab. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo was...
Feds indict former SFPD drug-lab technician
Dec 2nd
A former civilian technician at the San Francisco Police Department's crime laboratory was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges she skimmed cocaine from the lab. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo was...
Former SF drug lab technician indicted on federal charges
Dec 1st
A former technician who was at the center of a scandal at the San Francisco Police Department's crime laboratory is due to be arraigned in U.S. District Court Wednesday on a new federal charge. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on one count of obtaining a controlled substance -- namely, cocaine -- between October and December 2009 through fraud ...
Feds indict former SFPD drug-lab technician
Dec 1st
A former civilian technician at the San Francisco Police Department's crime laboratory was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges she skimmed cocaine from the lab. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo was...
SFPD crime lab’s DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes
Dec 14th
Nine months ago, the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory — a capacious, hangarlike building fronted with palm trees in the old Hunters Point naval shipyard — was rocked by the revelation that a rogue technician, ...
San Francisco police crime lab accused of cover-up
Dec 4th
The San Francisco police crime lab - just emerging from a scandal over its handling of drug evidence - is facing new accusations that officials covered up an error involving the mix-up of vials to be tested for DNA...
