SF News Civil Grand Jury: Scandal-Plagued Crime Lab Should Be Run Independently Of SFPD According to the findings of a six-month study by a 19-member San Francisco Civil Grand Jury, our local crime lab needs to be removed from SFPD control and run independently, just as the
SF News SFPD Crime Lab Might Have Put 'Hundreds' Of Cases In Jeopardy Over Faulty DNA Evidence The SFPD crime lab has been hit with another scandal as authorities confirm that "irregularities" may affect numerous hundreds of cases relying on DNA evidence. On Friday, the SFPD announced that a lab
SF News Disgraced SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Avoids Jail Former SFPD crime lab technician Deborah Madden, who plead guilty in March to misdemeanor cocaine possession after two federal trials on greater charges ended with hung juries, has skirted jail time and was
SF News Former SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Pleading Guilty To Misdemeanor The sad story of 62-year-old former SFPD lab technician Deborah Madden, who resigned in 2009 while under investigation for evidence tampering, is about to come to an end. Madden is pleading guilty to
SF News SFPD Crime Lab: Horribly Understaffed, Expensive After promising nearly a year ago to hire additional DNA analysts to cut through a backlog of cases, the Police Department's crime lab still has less than half the staff it needs to
SF News SFPD Sent Drugs To Crime Tech Madden During Her Cocaine Investigation Dan Noyes of ABC 7 uncovered another embarrassing bit of information about the city's police department. Namely, the San Francisco Police Department delivered illegal drugs to former crime lab technician Deborah Madden while
SF News Crime Lab Clusterfu*k Results In Noe Valley Murderer Rampage Via Noe Valley SF and the Chron we hear tell of the case of the unsolved murder Charles McAleer-Bonilla outside his home at 28th and Sanchez on April 8, which now appears solved
SF News Crime Lab Should Privatize Crime Lab Work, Says City Controller See what baggie theft can lead to? An irrevocable chain of gruesome events. CBS 5 reports, "A newly released report from the San Francisco City Controller concludes that the SFPD should privatize much
SF News DNA Backlog at SFPD Includes 23 Murders, 86 Rapes The backlog at the SFPD's crime lab includes evidence that could convict murderers in 23 cases, as well as evidence in 86 sexual assaults and 187 burglaries, some dating back to 2005 and
SF News Murderer *Probably* Won't Walk Due to That Whole Crime Lab Scandal Remember the story of Dopey Debbie the Coke Whore whose shenanigans may have cost the SFPD like a hundred drug convictions? Well, prosecutors in the case of Dennis Cyrus a former member of
SF News Gascón Promotes LAPD Buddy to Assistant Chief In the wake of that whole crime lab cocaine brouhaha, SFPD chief George Gascón is shuffling some staff, and promoting his recently hired buddy from L.A., Jeff Godown from commander to assistant
SF News SFPD Waits Two Months to Investigate Lab Tech Accused of Stealing Cocaine In a snafu that has resulted in the dismissal of at least 90 criminal cases so far, new reports reveal that the San Francisco Police department waited two months to launch their investigation
SF News Brown Joins SFPD Into Drug Lab Evidence Tampering Case 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
