BELCHERTOWN – Sonja Farak, the chemist accused of evidence tampering and stealing heroin and cocaine at the state crime lab in Amherst where she works, pleaded not guilty Tuesday at her arraignment in ...

The Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services has received 500 to 800 phone calls from people with vacated convictions -- commonly known as "Dookhan and Farak defendants" who want refunds, ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court has ordered the dismissal of more drug cases potentially tainted by a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day for the eight years she ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts prosecutors said Thursday that they will dismiss more than 6,000 convictions tied to a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug ...

Massachusetts prosecutors withheld evidence of corrupt state narcotics testing for months from a defendant facing drug charges, and didn’t release it until after his conviction, according to newly ...

In December 2011, Springfield, Massachusetts police arrested Rolando Penate for allegedly selling heroin, and the drugs were sent off to be tested by then-35-year-old drug lab chemist Sonja Farak at ...

A former drug-addicted chemist admitted that she was smoking marijuana and occasionally took ecstasy while she was employed screening thousands of blood and saliva samples for HIV at the notorious ...