Alabama Lab Owner Gets Prison Time for Falsifying Drug Tests That Cost Parents Custody of Their Kids
The Blaze | November 20, 2020 | Breck Dumas

A previously-convicted felon who owned an Alabama laboratory has been handed a lengthy prison term, after being convicted of falsifying paternity and drug tests that resulted in several parents wrongly losing custody of their children.

Brandy Murrah, 37, was sentenced to 15 years hard time, after pleading guilty to falsifying test results in at least that many instances that falsely claimed samples came back positive for drugs, the Dothan Eagle reported.

Murrah previously owned A&J Lab Collections — a business that collected hair follicle and urine samples and the like — and was supposed to forward them on for analysis and then report the findings to the Alabama Department of Human Resources.

But Murrah was caught falsifying the results after a mother who was accused of using drugs — and knew she was clean — called the doctor who purportedly signed off on her results collected by A&J. The doctor said they never received any sample, and the parent pressed for an investigation that found Murrah had submitted several fake results.

Like election overseers, and FISA court judges, law enforcement officials no doubt said: “But there were procedures in place! We’ll conduct a review as to how this could have happened.” And if the reporter believes that, he deserves his last name.