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A Delaware man without a valid driver’s license was arrested on several charges after reportedly passing out behind the wheel and causing a single-vehicle accident while allegedly driving under the influence of narcotics.

Just after midnight on April 17, a man from Smyrna was driving locally in a 2019 Volkswagen. According to reports, he did not have a valid license to be behind the wheel. During his travels, the man was the victim of an unfortunate accident when his vehicle struck a tree on the side of the road near the Dover Scrap Yard.

Emergency medical technicians were the first on the scene, and state troopers arrived shortly after. It was believed that the man suffered an overdose, causing him to pass out and lose control of the vehicle. He was given Narcan, and the man regained consciousness before he was transported to a nearby hospital.

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A former Colorado doctor from Florida is facing several charges after the police raided his Massachusetts yacht and found that he was allegedly in possession of illegal firearms and substances.

On the morning of September 5, a 69-year-old retired physician from Key Largo was out on his 70-foot yacht in the Nantucket Harbor with a female passenger. The woman on board became ill, and the police were notified.

It was reported that officers from the Nantucket Police Department, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Nantucket Harbor Master’s Office, and the local fire department worked together to locate the vessel. When they found it, the authorities went to the woman, who was in the bedroom, and believed she had overdosed on drugs. She was taken to the hospital for medical treatment.

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According to reports, a man in Indiana who was being treated for a medical emergency allegedly bit a police officer trying to detain him at the scene. 

On the afternoon of February 18, the authorities in Evansville received notification about a man who was unconscious and needed emergency medical help. The caller reported that they suspected he had overdosed on drugs which caused a seizure and resulted in his current state. 

The police went to the address, and the man was found lying on the ground. 

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A teacher in New Jersey is facing multiple charges after allegedly overdosing on Fentanyl in front of the students in his middle school class.

At the beginning of the school day on November 29, a 57-year-old art teacher at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, New Jersey, was in his middle school classroom with his students.

Around 9:00 AM, the students saw the man fall onto the floor.

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The mother and father of a youngster who previously overdosed on fentanyl have been taken into custody after the boy reportedly experienced a second overdose from ingesting their drugs.

39-year-old Donald Ray Little, Jr. and 27-year-old Mary Ashley Willis live in Berkeley County, South Carolina, and they have a 1-year-old son.

On March 17, the family was reportedly staying in a motel in Columbia.

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A man accused of selling drugs out of a storage unit reportedly told the authorities that he was not profiting from the transactions but was giving methamphetamine to the people free of charge.

56-year-old Mark Hiles resides in Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to the police report, the man is receiving disability, and they posited that he is living inside of a local storage unit.

On December 19, the authorities were notified by a security guard working at the Green Avenue Towers. The man told them that he saw people going into the storage unit, which was the site of someone’s death from a possible drug overdose at the end of November.

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After the father of her child ended their relationship, the mother of a newborn reportedly ditched the baby at a stranger’s residence and ran away.

33-year-old Melissa Kelley lives in Astor, Florida, and she recently gave birth to a son.

Kelley and her son’s father ended their relationship, and the woman was reportedly very emotionally distressed over the breakup.

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A Florida woman was arrested and charged after she allegedly allowed a 13-month-old child to overdose while in her home and care.

33-year-old Nicole Ciufi lives in an apartment in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.

In the evening on May 15, Ciufi reportedly had a 13-month-old child at her apartment for whom she was providing care.

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A man who volunteers as a leader for the Boy Scouts in Staten Island, NY, was taken into custody for accusations that he was selling heroin out of the basement at his uncles New Brighton home. His uncle is accused of the criminal activity as well.

Kevin Saunders has worked with the Boy Scouts of America as a volunteer for nearly a year. He began taking a significant interest in working with the children when one of his cousins, the son of his uncle Adam Soler, became a member of the organization, according to a statement from Saunders’ younger brother who is 22-years-old.

When the Staten Island Narcotics Heroin Overdose Task Force was investigating the origin of the illegal narcotics in one of the recent local fatal heroin overdoses, they believed the drugs had been obtained from Saunders, and they began to look into his activities. Their efforts led them to Soler’s home, and they suspected the heroin was being distributed from that location. On Friday they obtained a search warrant to inspect the premises.

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The parents of an 8 year old boy have been charged with child endangerment after their son survived an overdose of heroin last month, according to police.

On January 11th the police responded to a call of a child not breathing at a home in a suburb of southwest Cleveland, Ohio. They found the boy unresponsive in the living room with his father doing chest compressions on him. The boy was transported to the hospital after an officer found a pulse. The parents, Charles Dowdy and Danielle Simko are suspected of narcotics use after drugs and syringes were found on the property, the police report stated.

The father had told police that he and the mother were in bed with their son when he noticed that the child’s lips were turning blue.

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