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Cops: Suffolk sheriff shoots fugitive in Queens

July 1, 2009 By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN Special to Newsday

A man with a felony drug warrant out for his arrest was shot in the stomach by a member of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department working as part of a federal task force in Queens Wednesday morning, according to New York City Police. Members of the NY/NJ HIDTA task force, an anti-drug trafficking agency, approached a man wanted on a felony drug warrant at 116th Street and Springfield Avenue, Commissioner...

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