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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 19 July 2017

Police:

Dealer charged with killing 4 claimed other slayings

do’s statements. The Bucks burying them more than
County district attorney de- 12 feet deep, investigators
clined to comment beyond said. Authorities found the
court papers released last body of the fourth man,
week, which don’t mention 19-year-old Loyola Universi-
the Philadelphia claims. ty of Maryland student Jimi
DiNardo told authorities Taro Patrick, in a separate
that he lured the four men grave on a remote part
to his family’s 90-acre farm of the farm after DiNardo
under the guise of marijua- told police where he bur-
na transactions before kill- ied him. In exchange for
ing them there, according that information, prosecu-
to the court papers. One tors agreed not to seek the
man was last seen July 5, death penalty.
and the other three van- DiNardo’s 20-year-old cous-
A law enforcement official escorts Cosmo DiNardo, right, to a ished two days later.The in Sean Kratz is charged in
vehicle in Doylestown, Pa. DiNardo, who confessed to killing bodies of three of the men three of the killings.
four men on his family’s farm in Bucks County, has also claimed were placed in an oil tank DiNardo and Kratz are be-
to have killed two people in neighboring Philadelphia. that was converted into a ing held in jail without bail.
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) cooker that DiNardo called They are set to appear be-
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK directly in order to have a the “pig roaster,” accord- fore a judge for a prelimi-
Associated Press starting point,” Ross said. ing to court papers. He nary hearing in the case on
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A pot “Dealing with it third hand doused them with gasoline Sept. 7, Bucks County pros-
dealer who confessed to is virtually impossible.” and lit them on fire before ecutors said.q
killing four men on his fam- DiNardo was charged last
ily’s farm in Bucks County week in Bucks County with
also claimed to have killed four counts of first-degree
two people in neighboring murder in the case of four
Philadelphia, but the city’s missing men whose remains
police commissioner called were found on his parents’
the information “sketchy.” farm in Solebury, 30 miles
City detectives are looking (48 kilometers) north of Phil-
through their files to check adelphia. He also claimed
on the claims made by that he killed a man and
20-year-old Cosmo DiNar- a woman in Philadelphia
do, but they have not had years ago but did not know
a chance to question him, their names, Ross said.
police Commissioner Rich- Philadelphia police said
ard Ross said Tuesday. Bucks County authorities
“We have to talk to him are still investigating DiNar-

Powerful opioids suspected in

10-year-old Miami boy’s death

By JENNIFER KAY had fentanyl in his system,
CURT ANDERSON authorities said.
Associated Press “We don’t believe he got it
MIAMI (AP) — A 10-year- at his home,” Miami-Dade
old boy from a drug-ridden State Attorney Katherine
Miami neighborhood ap- Fernandez Rundle said.
parently died of a fentanyl “It could be as simple as
overdose last month, be- touching it. It could have
coming one of Florida’s lit- been a towel at the pool.”
tlest victims of the opioid She added: “We just don’t
crisis, authorities said Tues- know.”
day. But how he came into The case has underscored
contact with the powerful how frighteningly prevalent
painkiller is a mystery. fentanyl has become —
Fifth-grader Alton Banks and how potent it is.
died June 23 after a visit to Exposure to just tiny
the pool in the city’s Over- amounts can be devastat-
town section. ing.
He began vomiting at “There is an epidemic,”
home, was found uncon- Gomez said.
scious that evening and “Overtown seems to have
was pronounced dead the highest percentage of
at a hospital. Preliminary where these incidents are
toxicology tests showed he occurring.”q