A former Weber County evidence technician was charged Tuesday with 40 criminal counts, accused of stealing and eating methamphetamine in dozens of cases over a number of years.
Candice Barbara Follum, 48, is facing 20 counts of third-degree felony altering a public record and another 20 charges of misdemeanor use of a controlled substance.
Charging documents say Follum wrote in a statement admitting she took meth from about 15 or 20 cases in the evidence room — though investigators now believe she had compromised more than twice as many. She later admitted to investigators that she had been stealing drugs from the evidence room for the past three years, and had been eating the drugs while on the job.