Published January 08, 2015
A former chemist has pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from a western Massachusetts state crime lab where she worked.
Attorney General Martha Coakley says Sonja Farak pleaded guilty Monday in Hampshire Superior Court to theft of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence and drug possession.
The 35-year-old Northampton resident has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, with 18 months to serve and the balance suspended during a five-year probation.
Farak was arrested in January 2013 after co-workers at the Amherst lab told police drugs were missing.
Farak's case is not connected to that of former chemist Annie Dookhan, who worked at a state drug lab in Boston. Dookhan admitted faking test results in criminal cases, jeopardizing thousands of convictions. She was sentenced in November to at least three years in prison.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-mass-lab-chemist-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-drugs-sentenced-to-2-1-2-years-in-prison