ShopRite petit larcenist reoffends during drug court treatment, lands back in jail.
Dale Page had escaped prison last year, but was rearrested on another charge.
Chronicle readers may recall our coverage of Dale Page, the elderly African-American Vietnam veteran who was charged with petit larceny at Croton’s ShopRite, but escaped a prison term by going into Peekskill’s drug court treatment program.
We are sad to report that Page did not make it through the program. According to his attorney, James Martorano, Page was arrested late last year on a charge of stealing a pocket book. He was sentenced to a total of six months at the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla for that charge and the Croton ShopRite charge, and his drug court treatment program was terminated. Page gets out of jail next month.
“It broke my heart to see it happen,” Martorano told us, adding that Page will now have to seek drug treatment on his own. Page became addicted while serving in Vietnam and has spent half of his life in jail for crimes related to his drug habit.
“If he calls me, of course I will help him,” Martorano said. The attorney still harbors hopes that Page will “get his life together.”
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The horrors that the boys who went to Vietnam saw and then returned as men cannot be understated for the reason for drug abuse. Mercifully God took my brother in the TET offensive but if he did come back I would want all the services to help the Vets including drug addiction. And now they are going to fire 70,000 employees of the VA. Am I missing something or has respect for those who serve becoming a thing of the past.
Having also served in the Army during the Vietnam era I believe that the various branches of the military are somewhat responsible. A large breakdown in discipline allowed the open use of drugs and alcohol in a combat zone. Why?
That is certainly not the case today, I hope!