Summit 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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It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
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Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
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 ArticleExperts say empathy for addicts the result of heroin’s grip on white population
The Rev. Mike Starks witnessed the destruction of crack cocaine, but not from the sidelines — he was a self-described gangster and drug addict before he became a minister. The Akron community activist...
View ArticleClark County drug dealer guilty in overdose death
A drug dealer has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the first time ever in Clark County for selling drugs that led to an overdose death . A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield...
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 ArticleGonic Woman Sentenced In Connection With Drug Distribution Causing Death...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire) CONCORD - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jazzmyn Rood, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire, was...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Derek Boogaard death
A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanour drug charge. Jordan...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Boogaard death
NEW YORK (AP) — A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor drug...
View ArticleDrug dealer sent to prison for 10 years in OD death
A drug dealer will spend the next decade in jail — the first person convicted by a Clark County jury of involuntary manslaughter for selling drugs that led to an overdose death. Lucas Fowler, 25, of...
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 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 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 ArticleTwo men sentenced for selling heroin that led to SUNY Oswego student's death
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Two men were sentenced to prison Tuesday in connection with a SUNY Oswego student's fatal overdose on heroin. Gabriel A. Gonzalez, 24, and Brian T. Tumolo, 23, were both sentenced in...
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 ArticleAlleged dealer charged with supplying drugs that killed man, cops say
Police found the victim dead of a drug overdose in a Kmart bathroom Gregory Koc(Ocean County Jail) TOMS RIVER -- A Toms River man has been charged with causing the death of a Berkeley Township man who...
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 ArticleMan accused of selling heroin that led to death indicted
Christopher T. Brown, 38, of Irvington, charged in August in connection with the death of a Raritan Township man, has been indicted, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns, III announced on...
View ArticleSon of ex-Chirlane McCray aide is a drug dealer: prosecutor
The son of a former top City Hall aide is a drug dealer who fatally stabbed a teen in a dispute over money, prosecutor said in court Tuesday. Khari Noerdlinger, 19, and victim Savion Lewellen, 16,...
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