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Police in Connecticut's second largest city will soon begin distributing clean syringes and glass pipes in what are being called ``harm reduction kits'' to help residents battling drug addiction alive until they seek treatment.

(WTIC-AM) -- A law enforcement operation this morning targeted people wanted on charges related to drug sales, assault, and weapons violations. Hartford Police Lieutenant Paul Cicero says Operation Viper was carried out at locations in the city and surrounding areas, including Manchester. "Twenty...

State authorities say Connecticut residents disposed of a record 43,000 pounds of unneeded medications last year at drug drop boxes at police stations all over the state.

(Waterbury, Conn./WTIC) - Federal authorities say 29 people are charged with conspiring to distribute and possess drugs in the Waterbury area. The arrests are part of a yearlong investigation among the FBI, DEA, and Waterbury and Naugatuck Police. Law enforcement officials say that between February...

A convicted drug dealer described as dangerous by a prosecutor is facing sentencing on a gun charge related to a 2017 drug bust in Hartford.

Federal officials say a Connecticut judicial marshal admitted he sold heroin and used his job as a shield to protect a drug supplier.

Westport police have seized $110,000 in cash following a complaint about a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a local hardware store early Saturday.

Police say seven Connecticut officers were exposed to a white powdery drug and two of them were hospitalized after a suspect threw a bag of suspected dope and it burst open during a search warrant raid.

Police in Hartford have arrested five people, seized more than 20 pounds of heroin and confiscated several guns in three drug raids around the city.

A police dog sniffed out drugs in a vehicle pulled over in Bristol early Friday, said police.