Wednesday, January 9, 2013
New details have emerged in the ongoing Hinton Drug Lab crisis.
While disgraced state lab chemist Annie Dookhan was in court today, The Boston Globe unearthed new details in the state drug lab saga including a plea by her husband to not trust her. Surren Dookhan, Annie Dookhan’s husband, sent a text message to George Papachristos, former Norfolk Count assistant district attorney and a noted friend of Annie Dookhan, calling her a liar, according to The Boston Globe. According to the Globe: “This is Annie’s husband do not believe her, she’s a liar, she’s always lying,” Surren Dookhan texted to the prosecutor, according to an interview Papachristos gave to State Police on Oct. 3, 2012. “She is looking for sympathy and attention.” The Globe also reports Annie Dookhan was caught removed 90 drug samples from…
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The state drug lab chemist who is accused to tampering with evidence will be put on GPS monitoring and must adhere to a curfew.
A diminutive Annie Dookhan walked into Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday morning where she was arraigned on 15 of the 27 charges against her in the state drug lab crisis. Dookhan pleaded not guilty to four counts of obstruction of justice, eight counts of tampering with evidence and one count of falsely pretending to hold a degree from a college or university. Charges are pending against Dookhan in other counties as well. Assitant Attorney General Anne Kaczmarek, who is prosecuting the case, said Dookhan allegedly tampered with drug vials while working at the lab and admitted to forging a lab officer’s initials on a drug sample. "She would make the drugs match the objective test," she said. Kaczmarek listed two instances where the true test…
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Lack of accreditation and problems with the reporting structure were determined to be contributing factors in the unprecedented Hinton Drug Lab crisis.
A joint audit committee convened Wednesday at the State House to determine where to pin blame beyond disgraced chemist Annie Dookhan in the ongoing Hinton Drug Lab crisis. The committee, which is a combination of the state Post Audit and Oversight Committee, Joint Committee of Public Health and Joint Committee on Public and Homeland Security, heard testimony from a variety of officials directly and indirectly involved with the scandal, which has jeopardized at least 34,000 criminal cases in Massachusetts. At the hearing – the second of what one committee member termed “many” – the committee sought to go beyond Dookhan’s malfeasance, and tried to figure out how the Hinton lab was being run, why it operated without proper accreditation and …
Epyon777
5:51 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
This woman destroyed people's lives. that would be the nicest term I could think to call that woman. whole families were destroyed by her biased. go find something else to gripe about Hillary. I'm sure someone is cutting down a tree in their backyard you you can go cry about more ›