Judge sentences 4 for selling heroin that led to Longmonth death
All four admitted guilt A federal judge in Denver has handed down sentences of up to 10 years in prison to three people who pleaded guilty to distributing heroin connected to a 2013 fatal...
View ArticleSuspected dealer admits he dispensed drugs that killed
Blaine Holley faces up to eight years in state prison MORRISTOWN -- An accused drug dealer faces up to eight years in state prison after admitting Monday to providing cocaine and heroin to a man who...
View ArticleDwight man gets 8 years for selling heroin to woman who overdosed
A Dwight man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for selling heroin to a 19-year-old woman who died from an overdose in southwest suburban Wilmington. Joseph P. Alksnis, 26,...
View Article2 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 ArticleMan convicted of selling heroin that led to overdose death
The Camden resident was charged in 2014. WOODBURY -- A Camden man was found guilty Wednesday of causing the death of a Logan Township man who died of a heroin overdose in 2014, according to the...
View ArticleMan gets 18 years for selling heroin that let to overdose death
The victim traveled to Camden to purchase heroin and later died of an overdose. WOODBURY -- A Camden drug dealer was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for selling heroin to a Gloucester County man...
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 ArticlePaterson man accused of selling drugs that killed West Milford woman
PATERSON – A 26-year-old Paterson man was arrested Thursday morning on first degree criminal charges accusing him of selling drugs to a West Milford woman who overdosed and died in June, authorities...
View ArticleMan charged with selling drugs that led to fatal overdose of Mantua man
He allegedly sold heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl to a Mantua resident. WOODBURY -- Authorities have charged a Camden man with selling heroin laced with a powerful painkiller to...
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 gets 5 years for customer's overdose death
A Hamilton drug dealer was sentenced to prison Friday for causing the death of a customer who overdosed. MOUNT HOLLY -- A drug dealer who pleaded guilty to causing a customer's death by selling him...
View Article3 indicted on charges they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths
The three overdose victims died in 2016. WOODBURY -- Three men have been indicted on charges that they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths in Gloucester County. The cases against the three men are...
View ArticleMan gets 13 years for selling heroin that led to OD deaths
Angel Hernandez, 39, of Elmwood Park was convicted of two counts of strict liability for drug-induced deaths. PATERSON - A drug dealer from Bergen...
View ArticleCloster man sentenced for selling heroin that led to Emerson woman's overdose
After a county prosecutor declared that his case should be a “cautionary tale” to any would-be drug dealer, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Closter man to six years in state prison for selling the...
View ArticleCloster man sentenced for selling heroin that led to Emerson woman's overdose...
After a county prosecutor declared that his case should be a “cautionary tale” to any would-be drug dealer, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Closter man to six years in state prison for selling the...
View ArticleThe Heroin Crisis in Trump’s Backyard
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla.—Across the bridge from Palm Beach’s oceanfront mansions and Mar-a-Lago, the private club owned by President Trump where he spent...
View ArticleDoctors must lead us out of our opioid abuse epidemic
(CNN)Veteran doctors don't need a blood test to tell when someone is on the verge of a drug overdose. They can even narrow down the culprit by observation alone. Dilated pupils mean cocaine,...
View ArticleHow Ohio prosecutors are fighting back against deadly heroin
(CNN)The short, scarce breaths had all but stopped by the time the paramedics arrived. On August 21, EMS workers in Springfield, Ohio, found a heroin user passed out behind the wheel of a car. Having...
View ArticleHow Misuse of a Single Paragraph Ended Up Killing 60,000 Americans Per Year
Opioid addiction is at an all-time high in the U.S., and according to many addiction specialists, pain and hopelessness are primary drivers of this burgeoning crisis.1 Limiting the availability of...
View ArticleCongress’s Take on the Heroin Epidemic
A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares in 2001 (when the War in...
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