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Friday, October 11, 2019
Vol. 94, No. 41
SENIOR LIVING
RUSSELL GARDENS PROPOSES NEW LAW
MANGANO LOSES LAW LICENSE
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G.N. resident indicted for OD deaths
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Queens grand jury charges Justin Lum with supplying heroin that caused 2 fatalities BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A Great Neck resident has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury on manslaughter charges for allegedly distributing illegal drugs that resulted in two overdose deaths, The Queens County district attorney’s office said last Thursday that Justin Lum, 30, of Forest Row in Great Neck, was charged with distributing cocaine, alprazolam (or Xanax), heroin, and in one case, fentanyl, to a man and woman, in the spring of 2017 and 2018, respectively. He is the first alleged drug dealer to be charged in Queens County with a homicide related to overdose deaths. “Heroin, unfortunately, has made a deadly comeback in Queens County and throughout New York City, and our nation as a whole,” said acting District Attorney John M. Ryan. “The dealers who profit from distributing these
drugs bear responsibility when their clients die. This defendant thought he was safe from prosecution. He was dead wrong.” Lum was arraigned on a 15-count indictment that included three counts of second-degree manslaughter and multiple counts of third- and fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, according to a news release. If convicted, he could face 26 to 126 years in prison, according to Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder. According to the charges, Lum supplied heroin to his girlfriend, Patricia Collado, 28, of Brooklyn, in April 2017. After allegedly snorting lines of heroin from a cellphone at the movies, Collado passed out in a parked vehicle, where first responders transported her to a nearby hospital for further treatment, Queens prosecutors said. The next day, after being discharged from the hospital, Collado Continued on Page 58
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A runner crosses the finish line at the Stepping Stones Lighthouse 5K. See story on page 3 and more photos on page 12.
Attorney for Bonanno asks for trial to be moved BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
has requested that his trial be moved to the Bronx. “Dr. Matthew Bonanno canA lawyer for a plastic surgeon not get a fair trial here in Westand Great Neck resident, Mat- chester County,” the lawyer, Paul thew Bonanno, who is charged Gentile, said Tuesday. “The jury with illegal weapons possession pool has been tainted by the
Westchester district attorney, with unlawful accusations of Mr. Bonanno being a domestic terrorist, and a danger to himself, and others.” Gentile said that the process Continued on Page 59
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