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Laid-Off TV Anchor, Cameraman Spend Severance Checks To Chase Narcotics Pipeline from Dominican Republic to New Hampshire

January 14, 2018

The two former employees of WBIN-TV NH 1 had the story lined up when the owner of the station shut it down and laid them off in February 2017. They decided to do the story anyway, using their severance checks and help from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to trace the flow of drugs from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico to Boston to New Hampshire; they got their story, Beyond the Border:  The Opioid Pipeline, on the air at WCVB-TV Channel 5 in Boston, and online here: