POUGHKEEPSIE – Just one day after a City of Poughkeepsie police officer was rushed to the hospital for treatment of a fentanyl exposure overdose, police in the area are doubling down on efforts to arrest dealers selling the deadly fentanyl. Members of the Dutchess County Drug Task Force and City of Poughkeepsie police arrested a 37-year-old fentanyl dealer in Poughkeepsie 25 hours after the city cop was exposed while making a drug arrest.
The account of the City of Poughkeepsie police officer’s dangerous encounter with the deadly poison can be found here.
On Thursday at approximately 3 p.m., task force members located Poughkeepsie resident Michael Graham in Pershing Avenue Park and arrested him on two felony counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, with additional charges pending.
Graham was captured as the result of an investigation into the sale of crack cocaine and fentanyl in numerous locations in the city. At the time he was arrested, Graham was in possession of a large quantity of crack cocaine and fentanyl packaged for sale, police said.
He was arraigned and remanded to the Dutchess County Jail without bail. Task force supervisor Detective Sergeant Adam Harris said, “Dealers selling this poison are putting lives at risk and we are going to continue targeting these poison-peddlers until they are out of business permanently.”
The officer’s exposure overdose that required hospital treatment has law enforcement upping their efforts to stop the dealers. “Wednesday’s overdose of an officer who was trying to protect the community from fentanyl shows just how non-discriminatory and dangerous this poison is.”
City of Poughkeepsie Police Captain Rich Wilson indicated that his agency is working with county, state, and federal law enforcement “to address the serious and catastrophic effects that drug use and the availability of fentanyl is having on our communities.” Wilson indicated that the officer…
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