Federal Drug Charges for Former SFPD Crime Lab Supervisor

In an inter­est­ing turn of events for­mer San Francisco crim­i­nal­ist, Deborah Madden, has been brought up on fed­eral charges, even after the state opted to not press charges (SFGate).

Apparently there is a limit to what even gov­ern­ment employ­ees can get away with, in that crazy San Francisco.

Madden, 61, who has not been jailed on the charge, has never been pros­e­cuted by The City. She did plead no con­test in San Mateo County to charges that stemmed from San Mateo police find­ing 0.09 grams of cocaine dur­ing a search of Madden’s home there.

Paul DeMeester, Madden’s attor­ney, took excep­tion to the fil­ing of fed­eral charges, ques­tion­ing why the fed­eral gov­ern­ment was involved.

“I don’t see that her pick­ing up some residue — drugs that had been tested and des­tined for the trash bin — I don’t see how her admis­sion to tak­ing the drugs fits with those descrip­tions,” DeMeester said of the “mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion, fraud, forgery, decep­tion and sub­terfuge” claims.

The FBI is listed as the com­plainant on the indictment.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner