GOSHEN – Three women and a man died in unrelated cases of drug
overdoses in Orange County this past weekend, District Attorney David
Hoovler said Monday.
A 37-year-old woman died in Monroe, a 24-year-old woman died in Maybrook,
a 28-year-old Warwick woman died at Orange Regional Medical Center in
the Town of Wallkill and a 30-year-old man died in Goshen.
In the Maybrook case, a 24-year-old mother died and in conjunction with
Town of Montgomery Police, Jay Pagan, 32, of Maybrook, was charged in
connection with supplying the woman with drugs prior to her death. He
was charged with criminal possession and sale of drugs and is in the Orange
County Jail on bail.
Hoovler said 88 people died in 2017 from suspected overdoses in Orange
County.
“The death toll is continuing to rise despite everything we do,”
he said. “When we are losing four people a weekend, such as this
past weekend, it’s time that we all stand up and take notice how
bad this has gotten.”
Hoovler pushed his three-prong approach to the drug problem – enforcement,
better education that runs from elementary to high school, and treatment
on demand.
