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Thursday, April 24, 2025 ~ Volume 70 ~ Issue Number 21 ~ $1.00
Tierney, Officials Call for Stronger State Drug Laws By Matt Meduri As Albany’s Executive Budget negotiations drag on, several officials and families find themselves in an eerily similar position year after year. Indeed, District Attorney Ray Tierney (R), officials from varying levels of government, and, most importantly, the families and friends of those who have been killed at the hands of impaired drivers, make their case yet again to the State Legislature to include road safety and criminal justice provisions into this year’s budget. “On average, in Suffolk County, there’s 150 fatalities a year due to road accidents. A lot of that comes from distracted or drugged driving,” said County Executive Ed Romaine (R-Center Moriches). “Recent statistics say that a third of the accidents that occur as a result of a drunk or distracted driver.” “When did the State lose its way?” asked Romaine of the lack of examination of the laws the Legislature passes.
Tierney calls for stricter drug and driving laws from Albany (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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Toulon Announces Arrests in Pine Barrens Illegal Dumping By Matt Meduri Sheriff Errol Toulon (D) announced on Tuesday morning the results of two investigations into illegal dumping in the Long Island State Pine Barrens Preserve. One incident was of residential dumping, the other commercial, both taking place in separate Brookhaven parcels of the Pine Barrens. The Pine Barrens is composed of areas of three towns, Brookhaven, Riverhead, and Southampton. Joao Abreu was arrested for dumping twenty-four tons of concrete in a remote wooded area off Long Island Avenue in Yaphank. Abreu’s charges were promulgated after a sixweek joint investigation between the Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney’s Biological, Environmental, and Animal Safety Team (BEAST) Unit. Continued on page 12
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Evidence of illegal dumping in Yaphank and Manorville sections of the L.I. Pine Barrens (Credit - Office of Suffolk County Sheriff)
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