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Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports
Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Call it a statistical oddity: Despite an historic spike in drug overdose deaths across the United States last year, the total reported for New Jersey ticked up barely 1% over 2019 – compared with an increase of more than 32% in New York, over 17% in Pennsylvania and more than 10% in Connecticut, the CDC reported. More than 93,000 people across the country died from drug overdoses amid last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That total represented a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected nationwide for 2019, according to an annual…

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Lancaster County House Explosion Ruled Murder-Suicide Lancaster County House Explosion Ruled Murder-Suicide
Lancaster County House Explosion Ruled Murder-Suicide A couple in Mount Joy Township died in an apparent murder-suicide that ended with their home exploding, according to Northwest Regional police. The couple was found dead in their after a home explosion in the 100 block of Waldheim Road in Mount Joy Township June 1, just before 6 p.m. David Preston, 63, and his wife Victoria Preston, 60 were identified as the victims several days later, as Daily Voice previously reported. David Preston was responsible for his wife's medication and police believe he increased the amounts of several medications--including fentanyl-- to toxic levels resulting …

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Couple Arrested In York Sting Operation Yielding Ghost Guns, Fentanyl, Illegal Marijuana Plants Couple Arrested In York Sting Operation Yielding Ghost Guns, Fentanyl, Illegal Marijuana Plants
Couple Arrested In York Sting Operation Yielding Ghost Guns, Fentanyl, Illegal Marijuana Plants A couple in York has been arrested after a three-week long sting operation found guns and drugs in Manchester Township, according to the York County district attorney's office. Gabriel Rosario-Ruiz, age 31, and his girlfriend Latima Backus, age 34, were arrested at their home located at 999 Rosebud Court on Tuesday, according to the DA. Police obtained a warrant to search the home and arrest Rosario-Ruiz, after undercover police purchased fentanyl from him multiple times over a three weeks. When police entered the home, the couple was locked in the bathroom on the second floor. Police foun…

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NJ Man Arrested With 29 Bricks Of Heroin In Pennsylvania, Say State Police NJ Man Arrested With 29 Bricks Of Heroin In Pennsylvania, Say State Police
NJ Man Arrested With 29 Bricks Of Heroin In Pennsylvania, Say State Police Twenty-nine bricks of heroin and eight grams of fentanyl were found by Pennsylvania State Police during a traffic stop of a New Jersey man, according to state police. Altamir Baldwin, 28 of Woodbridge, was stopped for a traffic violation near mile marker 68.2 on Interstate 81 near Harrisburg on May 27, say PSP. In the passenger's side of the vehicle, 25 bricks of suspected heroin and eight grams of suspected fentanyl were found. An additional four bricks of heroin were found on Baldwin. Baldwin has been charged with the following: F Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession With Intent to M…

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by Jillian Pikora