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LACED HEROIN

KILLS 2 SO FAR

Deadly Fentanyl In Mix, Chief Says

Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert briefs 30 attendees at a lecture this afternoon on the continuing presence of heroin in local communities. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert briefs 30 attendees at a lecture this afternoon on the continuing presence of heroin in local communities. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – As he was preparing for Cooptoberfest Saturday, Oct. 8, Village Police Chief Mike Covert received word of three heroin overdoses, in Richfield Springs, Schenevus and West Oneonta.

Two of the three – in Schenevus and West Oneonta – turned out to be fatal, he said during a talk this afternoon to a Friends of the Village Library’s Sunday Series in Village Hall.

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