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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 3:13 pm
The area around Vinnie's Farm Market on Route 32 in Saugerties just got a little safer, cops say.
An investigation into ongoing complaints of heroin sales near the fruit stand has yielded an arrest. On Tuesday, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 11:16 am
Hiding in the bucolic Delaware County landscape: A burgeoning problem of drug dealing and addiction-fueled crime. Photo of tractor-crossing sign sporting a few bullet holes taken in Bloomville by photographer Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 11:32 pm
A three-month investigation into cocaine sales in Delaware County netted three arrests in the Town of Middletown on Wednesday, state police say.
According to a statement from the New York State Police, three people were arrested at a home at 104 Frog... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013 - 1:19 pm
All press is good press, or so the saying goes -- but not so at SUNY Delhi this week, where news of several student drug arrests follows closely on the heels of a bomb hoax that evacuated the tallest building in Delaware County on Tuesday.
Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2013 - 10:41 am
A 47-year-old Walton man was arrested on Tuesday morning at the scene of a one-car accident on County Route 14 in Franklin, when Delaware County sheriff's deputies found drugs and weapons in the car he was driving.
Rafael Macken was charged with driving... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 4:45 pm
Photo by Flickr user Jeff Adams; published under Creative Commons license.
A new state law intended to combat illegal recreational use of hydrocodone, a highly addictive opiate that is the main ingredient in Vicodin and other prescription painkillers,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 - 5:44 pm
Above: A short video clip by Daily Freeman reporter Paul Kirby about the sentencing of Wayne Longmore, former proprietor of the Walk-In Doctor's Office on Mill Hill Road in Woodstock.
Wayne Longmore, a 63-year-old Woodstock doctor who pled guilty last... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 - 10:23 am
The Ulster County Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) has arrested a Connecticut man on minor drug and traffic charges and seized over $200,000 found in his car, according to a news release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Eric... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 - 11:58 pm
A 22-year-old Gardiner woman was arrested on Sunday after crashing her car while under the influence of heroin, according to an Ulster County State Police press release.
Ulster County sheriff's deputies reported to an accident where a vehicle had rolled... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 - 5:13 pm
A three-month investigation into heroin sales in the Southside area of Binghamton yielded five arrests last week, after search warrants executed in the city turned up over 600 packets of heroin, over $20,000 in cash, and other drugs.
Arrested were 33-year... Read more
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