Smithfield firefighter who was caught dealing cocaine seeks job back
SMITHFIELD – One can’t be both a first responder and someone who participates in illegal drug use and distribution, says labor attorney Vincent Ragosta, who is representing Smithfield in its labor arbitration case against former Smithfield firefighter Thomas Mulcahey. Fired over criminal activity that later was pleaded down to a lesser charge, former Smithfield firefighter Mulcahey is suing the town for his job and pension back. “It’s been the town’s view that drug use, drug dealing, and affiliation with drug dealers, gun runners, are completely incompatible of a position of public ...