Interview with lab tech details alleged drug skimming

Deborah Madden, the retired San Francisco crime lab employee suspected of swiping drug evidence in a case that has brought The City’s criminal justice system to a standstill, admitted to police that she took home cocaine several times for personal use after it spilled on the lab counter because she “considered it waste” and “didn’t really think about it.”

Madden said she started doing the drug last summer because she thought she could “control [her] drinking by using some cocaine.”