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TOWN OF CRAWFORD – It was one year ago that Sgt. Eric Meier, a respected and beloved member of the Crawford Town Police Department suffered a fatal heart attack while investigating a possible marijuana growing operation. He was 51 and a more than 25-year member of the department.
On Saturday, on the anniversary of his death, a monument and garden were unveiled in Meier’s memory. Over 200 friends and coworkers joined his family behind the Crawford police station in Pine Bush. Many wiped tears from their eyes.
“It’s people like Eric, it’s people like the officers who are here, the fire, the EMS, that keep us safe,” said Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler. “They answer the call; they never know what’s there,”
Meier graduated from Pine Bush High School in 1982.
