Part six in a series.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice made a name for herself with her tough-as-nails prosecution of drunken drivers. Now, as the use of heroin has spread on Long Island, it's little surprise that the headstrong D.A. is taking a hard line.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/17/10
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While driving down a dark street you see flashing lights in your rearview mirror. It’s definitely not a patrol car, and it doesn’t appear to be the typical model used as an unmarked police vehicle.
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6/14/10
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Detectives are looking for a man who posed as a police officer in Baldwin and East Meadow on Sunday.
Nassau County police described the subject as a white man between 30 and 40 with a crew …
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Mike Caputo
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6/3/10
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Part six in a series.
Happening upon this seemingly abandoned lot might leave you with the feeling that you're about to witness a late-night drug deal, but in fact, you would have stumbled on one of the places that heroin dealers and addicts fear most.
It's the heart of the Nassau County Police Department's Heroin Task Force. Much of what happens here is kept under wraps. Police asked that the address be kept confidential. The following is what authorities can share.
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Sari Zeidler and Deirdre Krasula
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6/2/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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The Nassau County Police Department is offering a reward up to $5,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of two men alleged to have robbed a Baldwin home at gunpoint on April 9.
On …
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Mike Russo
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4/22/10
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Two Baldwin residents have filed the latest lawsuit intended to void the controversial 1st Precinct lease approved by Legislator Joe Scannell (D-Baldwin) and the Nassau County Legislature late last …
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Mike Russo
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4/22/10
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Twenty-two people, including one
Baldwin resident, were arrested April 6 and April 7 in connection with a nationwide Quaalude trafficking and distribution ring that went from Baldwin to Brooklyn …
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Sari Zeidler
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4/15/10
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A Baldwin man missing since Monday was found at a Howard Johnson hotel in Jamaica early this morning, police said.
Wayne Hunter, 25, was discovered in "good physical condition" by New York City …
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1/14/10
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By MIKE RUSSO
There was no vote, but a dozen Baldwin residents still made their opposition known to the Nassau County Legislature, which was originally scheduled to vote Monday on a 60-year lease …
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Mike Russo
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11/18/09
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