After allegations popped up that Deborah Madden, a 60-year-old lab technician for the SFPD, stole and used cocaine evidence she was supposed to analyze, Attorney General (and, most likely, the future Governor of California) Jerry Brown "announced that his office will provide a team of specialists to assist in a thorough independent audit of the laboratory."

"My office will assist San Francisco police to get to the bottom of these serious evidence-tampering allegations," Brown said in a statement. "It's critical that we act immediately to get the San Francisco crime lab back in service and restore the public's trust in our criminal justice system."

San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon recommended, Brown's crime lab specialists to "assist San Francisco authorities in re-testing of evidence, improving internal controls and taking whatever steps are necessary to return the lab to full operation." This major crime lab snafu will result in the dismissal of over dozens of drug cases.