2 plead not guilty to causing man's death with heroin, report says
The pair were offered sentences of 10 years and seven years in exchange for guilty pleas, according to the report The Sussex County Judicial Center in Newton. (Star-Ledger file photo) NEWTON -- Two...
View ArticleAkron man, Kevin Ecker, gets 21 years for selling drugs that killed addict
An Akron man will spend 21 years in prison for selling a drug addict the highly potent fentanyl that killed her when she overdosed in March 2015. Kevin Ecker’s case was the 22nd drug-related...
View ArticleMan gets 21 years for selling drugs that killed addict
An Akron man will spend 21 years in prison for selling a drug addict the highly potent fentanyl that killed her when she overdosed in March 2015. Kevin Ecker’s case was the 22nd drug-related...
View ArticleCamillus mom tells crowd at drug forum daughter's overdose shattered her life
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Camillus woman told a crowd of about 450 people at a public forum on drugs Wednesday night her life "was shattered into a million pieces" when her 24-year-old daughter died of a...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman’s death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
The death last Sunday of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at age 46 focused media attention on the nationwide surge in heroin use and overdoses. But the very real heroin epidemic is framed by...
View ArticleFormer Washington-area FBI agent sentenced for evidence tampering
By John Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former FBI agent who admitted using heroin seized in drug busts in the Washington area, leading to the dismissal of several major drug-trafficking cases, was...
View ArticlePa. leads nation in young men's overdose deaths, N.J. 4th
Pennsylvania leads the nation - New Jersey is fourth - in drug overdose deaths among young adult men, according to a new analysis, raising the local level of urgency about an epidemic that over the...
View ArticleNew Jersey man pleads guilty in drug-related death
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from another man's...
View ArticleActor’s death spotlights the danger of addiction to painkillers and heroin
At risk of oversimplifying a horrifying national trend, the problem of opioid addiction is something akin to a bicycle inner tube with a bulge in it: Squeeze the tube back into shape and the bulge...
View ArticleDrug dealer guilty in Clark County overdose death
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. (Oct. 8): A drug dealer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter tonight for selling heroin that led to an overdose death. A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield Twp.,...
View ArticleDrug dealer charged in overdose case gets 20 years
A convicted northeast Ohio drug dealer accused of selling the synthetic opiate fentanyl to a woman who fatally overdosed has been sentenced...
View ArticleState officials: Heroin overdose deaths spike in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. — Heroin overdose deaths are skyrocketing in Mississippi, on pace to reach 26 by year's end. Several years ago, the state averaged one death a year from the drug, according to state...
View ArticleMiamisburg man gets 5 years in friend’s fatal OD
UPDATE @ 4:10 p.m. March 13: A 25-year-old Miamisburg man will spend five years in prison for his friend’s fatal drug overdose. Michael Stine was sentenced today in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court...
View ArticleKevin Ecker of Barberton found guilty of selling drugs that killed Akron woman
Pamela Mignano pointed a photo of her granddaughter toward the young woman’s killer as he was escorted from a courtroom on Thursday. “I want you to remember this picture every day of your life,”...
View ArticleNJ man faces numerous charges in fatal overdose
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors say a northern New Jersey man caused a 19-year-old man's fatal overdose. Bergen County...
View ArticleDrug dealer charged in overdose case gets 20 years
A convicted northeast Ohio drug dealer accused of selling the synthetic opiate fentanyl to a woman who fatally overdosed has been sentenced...
View ArticleDrug dealer guilty in Clark County overdose death
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. (Oct. 8): A drug dealer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter tonight for selling heroin that led to an overdose death. A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield Twp.,...
View ArticleDrug dealer charged in overdose case gets 20 years
A convicted northeast Ohio drug dealer accused of selling the synthetic opiate fentanyl to a woman who fatally overdosed has been sentenced...
View ArticleDrug dealer guilty in Clark County overdose death
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. (Oct. 8): A drug dealer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter tonight for selling heroin that led to an overdose death. A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield Twp.,...
View ArticleSummit County gets tough on heroin deaths, charging drug suppliers with...
When Charles Marotto was recently sentenced to five years in prison for providing a fatal hit of heroin to a man he considered a friend, few people left the courtroom happy. Not Marotto. Not the...
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