One-year-old boy tests positive for cocaine

A one-year-old boy was tested positive for cocaine, Chicago police said.

The toddler was spotted chewing on a piece of tinfoil which was thought to be tainted with both drugs.

On Sunday when the boy was seen chewing the foil he was at a West Side house, Officer Melvin Branch said.

After the child started acting lethargic, he [...]

SF police to shut down troubled drug testing lab

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco police said Wednesday they have decided to shut down their troubled drug testing lab and outsource the work.

The unit had been indefinitely shuttered since March 9, shortly after former lab technician Deborah Madden was accused of skimming cocaine evidence.

Prosecutors have dismissed more than 600 drug cases in the wake of [...]