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New Bedford police officers responded to five drug overdoses, two of them fatal in an 11-hour period on Jan 22, 2018. Two men overdosed together and died in the same Union Street apartment. One of the men resided at the residence and the other was a friend.
According to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, they were both found by a roommate at 11:55pm on 22 Jan and declared deceased at the home just after midnight. A cut plastic straw with white powdery residue was found on the coffee table in front of both men.
Here are details on all five overdose incidents in New Bedford:
22 Jan at 1:14pm – Rodney French BLVD – 52-year old man
22 Jan at 5:33pm – Shawnee CT – 48-year old female
22 Jan at 6:51pm – Adams Street – 42-year old female
22 Jan at 11:55pm – Union Street – 50-year old and 28-year-old males (both deceased)
January has been a bad month for overdoses in New Bedford. On Jan. 10, a 38-year old male and 39-year old female had overdosed the same North Front Street apartment. On Jan 8-9, three people overdosed at the same South First Street address. There were four overdoses in total during that period. These are examples, and not a list of all the overdoses in January, 2019.
