Saving lives should be priority, not making drug arrests
Follow @csteditorials Prosecutors across the nation have begun charging people with murder if they shared illegal drugs such as heroin with a friend or family member who died as a result. Now there’s a...
View ArticleFederal prosecutor cites pregnant Camillus woman's fentanyl death as warning...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The top federal prosecutor for Central New York cited the death of a pregnant Camillus woman last year as a warning to all dealers putting addicts at risk with potentially lethal...
View ArticleSheriff: Cheaper drug that's 50x stronger than heroin slams Syracuse's suburbs
Syracuse, NY -- There's a new drug in town that's 50 times stronger than heroin and more profitable for drug dealers, Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway warned. It's called fentanyl, and it's hitting...
View ArticleTHE WATCHDOGS: Heroin deaths — tragedy or murder?
When police and paramedics arrived at her aunt’s apartment in Carol Stream, Adrianna Diana told them she and her friend Christopher Houdek had cooked and shot up heroin the night before. Diana, 20,...
View ArticleA painkiller’s deadly price: Fentanyl epidemic robs Georgia family of mother,...
Somebody help me! Pat Strickland was about to watch a movie in the den of her suburban Atlanta home two years ago, when she heard her 11-year-old grandson screaming upstairs. She rushed up the ten...
View ArticleHeroin dealer faces charge in death of 18-year-old
A day later, Weiss, an 18-year-old La Cueva High School wrestler and football player who had become addicted to legally prescribed painkillers, was found dead in his Northeast Heights bedroom by his...
View ArticleN.J. man accused of selling heroin that led to death
Christopher T. Brown, 38, of Irvington, was charged Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, with first-degree strict liability for drug induced death. He allegedly sold heroin to a man in Raritan Township who later...
View ArticleWhat's behind growing push to punish dealers in fatal ODs?
Faced with an alarming increase in opioid addiction, a growing number of prosecutors are charging dealers not just for selling but for the deaths of customers who overdose on heroin or fentanyl. Here...
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 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 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 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...
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 ArticleSaving lives should be priority, not making drug arrests
Follow @csteditorials Prosecutors across the nation have begun charging people with murder if they shared illegal drugs such as heroin with a friend or family member who died as a result. Now there’s a...
View ArticleFederal prosecutor cites pregnant Camillus woman's fentanyl death as warning...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The top federal prosecutor for Central New York cited the death of a pregnant Camillus woman last year as a warning to all dealers putting addicts at risk with potentially lethal...
View ArticleSheriff: Cheaper drug that's 50x stronger than heroin slams Syracuse's suburbs
Syracuse, NY -- There's a new drug in town that's 50 times stronger than heroin and more profitable for drug dealers, Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway warned. It's called fentanyl, and it's hitting...
View ArticleTHE WATCHDOGS: Heroin deaths — tragedy or murder?
When police and paramedics arrived at her aunt’s apartment in Carol Stream, Adrianna Diana told them she and her friend Christopher Houdek had cooked and shot up heroin the night before. Diana, 20,...
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...
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