LongIsland.com Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini has announced the guilty plea of a former NYPD officer to Manslaughter and other charges for selling fentanyl and causing a fatal overdose in 2019 “For a police officer to be selling fentanyl – a drug we are acutely aware can be fatal – he is not just breaking the law he is sworn to uphold, but knowingly gambling with people’s lives,” District Attorney Sini said. “This goes beyond criminality; it was irresponsible and morally corrupt.” “Suffolk County is a leader in New York State on bringing manslaughter charges against drug dealers causing fatal overdoses; our Office obtained both the first indictment and first conviction in the State on these cases in 2016 and 2017 respectively,” District Attorney Sini said. “However, just because we have been successful on this front does not eliminate the need for a specific death-by-dealer statute. We need a law on the books that sends a clear message to drug dealers causing fatal overdoses that these are homicides.”