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Mar 17 12:22 pm
  • drug overdose

Ex-city employee pleads not guilty in woman’s overdose death

City News Service

Jarid Nakamura allegedly walked into the Long Beach Police Department’s headquarters on March 6 and told homicide detectives that he supplied the drugs that killed 36-year-old Sokly Sar in July 2020.

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Mar 8 12:13 pm
  • drug overdose

UPDATE: Former city employee arrested, charged for death of woman who overdosed in 2020, police say

Fernando Haro Garcia

On Monday, 35-year-old Jarid Nakamura walked into the Long Beach Police Department Headquarters and claimed responsibility for the overdose death of 36-year-old Sokly Sar. 

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Nov 29 3:30 pm
  • drug overdose

Fentanyl overdose deaths soar in LA County over 5-year period 

City News Service

Overdose deaths attributed to the synthetic opioid fentanyl skyrocketed in LA County over a five-year period ending in 2021, with such fatalities increasing by 1,280%.

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Jun 9 4:52 pm
  • LBUSD

School officials warn of fentanyl-laced pills following accidental overdoses in LA County

Fernando Haro Garcia

There’s been growing concern that large amounts of ecstasy pills contaminated with fentanyl are circulating in the LA-area drug market.

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Mar 1 2019 7:30 am
  • drug overdose

4 overdoses in a day send police looking for source of drugs in Belmont Shore

Jeremiah Dobruck

Police worried there was a batch of heroin cut with fentanyl going around after four people overdosed in the same area of Second Street.

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Aug 27 2018 2:30 pm
  • drug overdose

LBFD investigating allegations its employees overdosed at Santa Barbara party

Jeremiah Dobruck

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said four people from Long Beach were saved after they appeared to have overdosed on opioids. The Long Beach Fire Department said it’s now looking into whether any of those people were employees at the department.

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Aug 26 2018 6:29 pm
  • drug overdose

Four Long Beach party-goers hospitalized in Santa Barbara after overdosing on opiates

Stephanie Rivera

Two men and two women from Long Beach were hospitalized early Sunday after displaying symptoms of an opiate overdose while at a post-wedding celebration at a rented Santa Barbara house, authorities said.

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