Drug Dealer Charged In Great Neck Plaza Overdose Death: Police

New York City NY

30 September, 2020

11:42 AM

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GREAT NECK PLAZA, NY — A Queens man has been arrested and facing drug-dealing charges in connection with an overdose death over the summer in Great Neck Plaza. A person overdosed and died June 29, Nassau County police told Patch. Narcotics detectives investigated the death and arrested Juan Altagracia, 31, of Woodside, around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday. Further details about the overdose weren't immediately released. Altagracia faces numerous counts of 3rd-degree unlawful possession of a controlled substance and 3rd-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. He was expected to appear in Mineola court Wednesday.