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White Plains, NY
News
Westchester Sues Highly Addictive Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors
Westchester County, facing the ever-escalating costs associated with combating the opioid epidemic, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against more than 30 parties alleged to manufacture and distribute the highly addictive painkiller. The county seeks to recover money used fighting the opioid and related heroin crisis in Westchester, the Hudson valley and nationwide. Westchester suffered 124 known opioid overdose deaths (includes heroin and prescription drugs) in 2016, according to the New York State Department of Health. The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturers, distributors and other entities …
New City, NY
News
Opioid Event At Good Samaritan Hospital Offers Training To Avert Overdoses
Rockland County Executive Ed Day participated in an event on opioid addiction Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. “Events like this are critically important to raise awareness and share strategies to combat this opioid epidemic. You have people who have been victims, people related to victims, medical professionals and people on the front lines of this crisis working together to have an impact on this scourge,” Day said. There were speakers who gave background information on the opioid epidemic, both nationally and throughout the Hudson Valley, according to John Lyon, a county …
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Judge: Couple Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death
PATERSON, N.J. -- A New York couple who sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin from Paterson that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death in New Jersey, a judge ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick, the judge said, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who authorities said bought it from a dealer in Paterson. Representatives of the attorney general's office in both states worked together to bring the charges after Cabral's mother found her son's body in their home on April 3,…
Monroe, NY
Police & Fire
Drug-Induced Death Charges Against Couple Dismissed In Warwick Man's OD
A Warwick couple who authorities said sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death, a judge in New Jersey ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick, the judge said, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who authorities said bought it from a dealer in Paterson.Representatives of the attorney general's office in both states worked together to bring the charges after Cabral's mother found her son's body in their home on April 3, 2016. She calle…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
New Jersey's New Top Lawman: Bergen County's Gurbir S. Grewal
GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- He made his name in Bergen first as a federal prosecutor and then as a fighter against the opioid epidemic as county prosecutor. Now Gurbir S. Grewal is the top lawman in the state. Grewal, of Glen Rock, became the 61st attorney general in state history -- and the first Sikh-American attorney general in U.S. history -- when the state Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment following the inauguration Tuesday of new Gov. Phil Murphy. “I am honored and humbled to assume the role of Attorney General at this critical time for our state and country," Grewal said. &qu…
