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Four drug overdoses in one weekend in Lindsay has police concerned

By Pamela Vanmeer

February 20, 2019

KAWARTHA LAKES-City of Kawartha Lakes Police are concerned after four people overdosed on the weekend of February 9th in Lindsay.

The Drug Enforcement Unit began an investigation into the trafficking of “purple heroin” in Lindsay after a number of recent seizures as well as overdoses. A 31 year old man from Chatham was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking is 31-year-old Shayeon Luciano Clarke of Chatham.

Here’s what police had to say about the overdoses and purple heroin.

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Pamela Vanmeer https://www.kawartha411.ca/

Pamela VanMeer is a two time winner of the prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award. Her investigative reports on abuse in Long Term Care Homes garnered international attention for the issue and won the Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a former reporter and anchor at CHEX News, now Global Peterborough and helped launch the New CHEX Daily, a daily half hour talk show. While at CHCH News in Hamilton she covered some of the biggest news stories of the day.

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