Christopher Paulus’s guilty plea and sentence came after Joshua Bloomfield’s mother persuaded the Chicago police to investigate her son’s death as a drug-induced homicide.
Chicago police to treat drug overdose scenes as potential homicides in effort to hold drug dealers accountable
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CHICAGO (WLS) There is a new effort underway in Chicago to hold drug dealers accountable for overdose deaths.
DuPage, Lake and McHenry counties have been pursuing charges ever since the state s drug-induced homicide law was put into place. Now, Chicago police will treat drug overdose scenes as potential homicide scenes. When they eventually rule that, hey, the cause and manner here was overdose, if detectives processed the scene accordingly on the front end, then we can go back, work with our narcotics officers, we can try to figure out where they purchased from, said Chief Brendan Deenihan, Chicago Police Dept.
Pushed by families who lost loved ones to drugs, the Chicago Police Department quietly has begun to investigate drug-related deaths as potential homicides.
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