Hartford hearing finds lab results showing fentanyl but lacks on-site documentation tying tests to 4 Magnolia Street

A hearing officer in Hartford reviewed testing results and company records that show fentanyl was detected at an apartment at 4 Magnolia Street, but said she still lacks on-site documentation tying the lab results definitively to that unit.

The hearing focused on testimony from the owner of Assured Decontamination Services, who described his company’s testing process and the chain-of-custody paperwork submitted to EMSL, the independent laboratory that analyzed the wipes.

The hearing officer said the submitted chain-of-custody and wipe-analysis records do not include an address and asked the firm to produce photographs and the testimony of the field inspector who collected samples. “I need these photographs to come from the inspector, not from anyone else,” the hearing officer said.

Assured Decontamination Services’ owner, identified in the record as Mr. Sullivan, told the hearing that his firm “tests for fentanyl and methamphetamine” and…