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Another fugitive arrested in Mass. accused of selling heroin in Belknap Co. LACONIA — Police from Swansea, Mass. arrested a man who had skipped out on appearing in Belknap County Superior Court after being indicted by a grand jury for multiple counts of selling drugs in the area. Sheriff Craig Wiggin said Andre Garcia, 23, whose last known address was in Dorchester, was a passenger in a car that police had stopped. Paperwork obtained see HEROIN page 8
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Chief says rash of Laconia fires are all ‘suspicious’ BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Fire Chief Ken Erickson said yesterday that the eight fires that lit the city from one Saturday to the next, including two major building fires, are all considered “suspicious” and under investigation. The spate of fires began shortly before 3 a.m. on Sunday, September 22 when one fire destroyed a large, multi-tenant com-
mercial building at 161 Court Street while a second charred a garage on Bay Street and continued this past weekend with three minor fires around Water Street, another that damaged Pitman’s Freight Room on New Salem Street and third that burned the former Christmas Island Motel on Weirs Boulevard. “I’m definitely very concerned,” said Erickson, who said that along with mem-
bers of his department and local police officials, the Office of the State Fire Marshall and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) are participating in the investigation. “There were eleven people working the scene at Christmas Island until 2 p.m. on Sunday,” he said. Erickson said the most recent fires began around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning as firesee FIRES page 4
Forced to pick 1 of 3 networks, some Medicaid recipients worried their specialists won’t be included BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — An official from the state Department of Health and Human Services
said yesterday that there has been some initial confusion about the new managed-care Medicaid enrollments — especially surrounding recipients
who have extraordinary medical needs. Assistant DHHS Commissioner Mary Ann Cooney said the state is asking recipients
to choose one of three private managed care organizations by determining which organization has his or her primary care see MEDICAID page 8
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