Sex Offenders and Drug Dealers
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- June
- 5
Spring Valley police and Rockland prosecutors used a relatively new law to charge accused drug dealers.
As a result of the drug sweeps through the village and other communities, they charged a number of accused drug dealers with selling cocaine, marijuana and other illegal narcotics within 1,000 feet of a school or facility that caters to children. The charge is an additional count, depending on the number of times drugs are sold. For example if a person sold cocaine once within 1,000 feet of the facility, that would be two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance.
And in Spring Valley, there are numerous facilities and parks catering to children and hard to avoid the 1,000-foot barrier.
And the drug law is under the same model as the county sex-offender law limiting a sex offender from living, working or hanging out within 1,000 feet of any facility or park dealing with children.
As one officer put it, sex offenders cannot legally move into the village as a result of the county law and drug dealers would be hard[pressed to find a street corner of apartment complex not near a children-related facility.
But drug dealers obviously don’t care if they are within 1,000 feet of a children’s facility. But the additional felony charge is on the books and being used.
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on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am by Steve Lieberman. 
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