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LI law enforcement officials escalate tactics against drug dealers
Law enforcement officials are charging some alleged dealers linked to the deaths of drug users with manslaughter and tracing dealers through their customers' cellphone calls and text messages. Photo Credit: Handout
Long Island law enforcement officials — spurred by an opioid epidemic that killed more than 500 people in Nassau and Suffolk counties last year — have started to escalate tactics, charging some alleged dealers linked to the deaths of drug users with manslaughter and tracing dealers through their customers’ cellphone calls and text messages.
Investigators now treat every overdose as they would a crime scene: getting to it as soon as possible to start gathering and processing evidence from a cellphone. Prosecutors in Nassau and Suffolk counties are trying to link dealers to overdose victims in order to be able to file stiffer charges that make them directly accountable for all overdoses.
Nassau police have arrested 66 suspected drug dealers connected to overdoses this year, already surpassing last year’s total of 52, authorities said. Suffolk police have arrested 176 people linked to overdoses so far in 2017; 2016 figures for Suffolk were not available.
“These dealers are not chemists. They’re not pharmacists. They’re taking a guess,” said Deputy Insp. Chris Ferro, commanding officer of the narcotics vice squad in Nassau County. “They go out and sell their batch and they kill about 10 or 15 people in the region and they say, ‘Oh, that didn’t work,’ but it’s too late, lives are lost.”
Cellphones are the key as investigators in many cases were able to identify suspects who sold drugs that led to overdoses simply by looking at the victims’ last calls or texts, officials say.
“It is a new phenomenon,” said James Hunt, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division. “With this opioid epidemic, we are always looking for new ways to attack the problem.”
Edward Friedenthal, chief of the Nassau District Attorney’s Special Operations, Narcotics and Gangs Bureau, said the new practice is helpful when officials want to catch the big dealers.
“That’s one of the ways that we’re able to start an investigation and work up a chain to ultimately find out who’s responsible,” he said. “Not only for the overdosing, but also, who’s responsible for distributing those narcotics to the person, who’s selling it and going up as far as we can up the food chain to try to get the ultimate source.”
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