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Public commenter recounts home invasion and urges local action; council says state law limits local change
Summary
A Jamestown resident recounted a violent home invasion and his family’s struggles with substance use, urging the City Council to act on public-safety and criminal-justice concerns. Council members reiterated they have limited authority to override New York State bail-reform law but said they have passed resolutions seeking change at the state level.
Arnold Lord, a Jamestown resident, used the council’s public-comment period to describe both a personal family crisis involving repeated opioid overdoses and a Nov. 3 home invasion that left a sleeping teenager injured. "I came. And when I found my daughter, I ran smack dab into a full blown junkie," Lord said, and later described the attackers as "masked cowards" who were arrested and released quickly.
Lord said his daughter had been revived with Narcan many times and warned of a stronger fentanyl strain…
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