I am local to the area, and although I can't provide MSM documentation of this man's drug and criminal history, I can give some insight regarding his last known whereabouts. At the intersection of Routes 38B & 26 there is a small group of apartments were finally condemned last year. One of the buildings appears to still have tenants, but the other buildings have notices on the doors and windows, and are obviously empty. The apartments have always had a reputation for housing those at rock bottom, drug dealers, parolees, and sex offenders. In the 1980s it was a sure place to buy cocaine and in the past few years it was known as a place to find heroin and meth. It's always been a flophouse of sorts with people coming and going and no landlord on site to keep things in check.
Our neck of the woods is presently struggling (along with the rest of the country) with a full-blown opiate/meth epidemic. It's so bad that recently EMTs were unable to transport my friend's 96-year old mother-in-law to the emergency room for a broken wrist because all FOUR area hospitals were overrun with overdoses from a batch of heroin cut with fentanyl. It's hard to wrap your head around, and the EMTs I know are being run ragged responding to overdose calls.
MOO would be that he has either left the state or succumbed to an overdose and his remains haven't been discovered as of yet. Both are extremely common scenarios in this area. NY weather isn't the most hospitable if you're homeless, and frequently addicts make their way south for the colder months and return in the Spring. Hopefully he is located so that his family can find some resolution.[/QUOTE— though your information about that could be correct that’s just a coincidence. It’s a halfway spot from his house to normal civilization basically. Thank you though.
