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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, February 7, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Montgomery Town Board Audit/
Work Session, 7 p.m. Town
Government Center, 110 Bracken Road,
Montgomery.
Town police recover drugs, cash
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
Town of Montgomery officers recently
responded to a call for an emotionally
disturbed person. The suspect was
arrested after he became combative and
choked, bit and hit family members.
“During the time that [officers] were
inside the house...they noticed what
they thought was a little bit more than
usual amount of money,” said Lt. Alex
Landolina. “And they saw a powdered
substance on the table and [officers]
immediately secured the scene at which
point they went for a search warrant.”
Their investigation turned up more than
three pounds of marijuana, ecstasy, LSD,
cocaine, hallucinogenic mushrooms,
concentrated cannabis oil and wax,
xanax, approximately $20,000 in cash and
drug packaging material.
The suspect was arraigned and sent to
Orange County Jail on $20,000 cash over
$60,000 bond.
Officers from Montgomery and
Maybrook also recently responded to a
call for an unattended death in Maybrook.
During the investigation, officers
noticed drug paraphernalia and concluded
it was a drug overdose. Narcan was not
able to be administered.
“During the investigation, [officers]
noticed things that linked them back
to a certain individual,” said Town of
Montgomery Lt. Alex Landolina. “There
were some text messages [that] were
popping up on the phone next to the
body, at which point officers...were able
to secure the suspect in regards to the
possible supplier of the drugs.”
Landolina says the suspect, Jay Pagan,
admitted to supplying the deceased person
with the drugs. Officers secured a search
warrant and a subsequent search found
narcotics and a weapon.
“We are seeing a tremendous amount
of narcotics overdoses throughout the
community,” said Landolina. “...We never
expected to see anything like this...It
appears that this one might be a direct
link into other [overdoses] in