Drug Tester Sentenced for Taking Bribes, Lying

A former court-appointed drug tester will serve time in prison for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said in a news release.

Jeannette Diggs, 51, of Rockville, was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow rendered the verdict Wednesday in Greenbelt.

Federal prosecutors said Diggs was a drug counselor for Alcohol and Drug Recovery of Maryland, where she administered urine tests to female clients on pretrial release, supervised release, parole or probation.

in exchange for performing spurious drug tests for certain clients and for providing fake discharge certificates. 

Co-conspirator Christopher Womack, 44, of Forestville, pleaded guilty to bribery on July 26 and was sentenced to three years probation, including nine months of home detention.

Though she was fired from ADR on Dec. 30, 2010, federal attorneys said Diggs was still involved in helping Womack provide bogus test results for bribes.

Prosecutors claim Diggs lied to a grand jury in July when she said she had not spoken to Womack since she left ADR, and cited a phone conversation in prosecutors said Diggs told Womack: “They have no f— proof. … You don’t know s—. Deny!  Deny! Deny! ... If you don’t remember no other f— word you remember that g—d— word. Deny! ... 'Cause that’s what the f— I’m gonna do.”