New York Drug Lab Shortcuts Raise Questions - NYTimes.com

New York Drug Lab Shortcuts Raise Questions - NYTimes.com: "Quality assurance workers at the Police Department discovered that the criminalist, Mariem Megalla, 57, ran a test on a sample that came back negative for cocaine on April 29, but instead of doing the required retesting, she changed the label to indicate that the sample was positive, said Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman.
The quality assurance team retested the sample and determined that it was, indeed, positive for cocaine, Mr. Browne said."