The Shelter Island Police Department and the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating the circumstances of a drug overdose at an Island residence on the morning of Friday, March 5.
According to the police, Shelter Island Emergency Medical Services personnel were dispatched to the residence after a call that someone who lived there was unconscious and not breathing.
On arrival at 8:18 a.m., Moises C. Garcia, 41, was found in the basement, dead from an apparent overdose of fentanyl, an opioid narcotic.
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