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It was announced on Monday that $7 million will come to western Connecticut to help combat the ongoing opioid epidemic.

The money will go to Winsted, Watertown, Torrington, Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, and Bridgeport.

It will be used to intervene and help people immediately when they are released from prison.

“What we know is that when people get out of jail, that is often when they are at the highest risk of overdose because they don’t immediately get connected to community health providers and don’t continue their medication assisted therapy,” said Sen. Chris Murphy.

The money will also be used to reach out to children whose parents suffer from addiction or have overdosed, as well as funding things like Narcan, drug test strips, and counseling services.

WOODBURY, MN — A Connecticut couple stole roughly $1 million in Lululemon merchandise over the course of a multi-state retail theft operation before they were eventually arrested at a store in Minnesota, according to reports.

Danbury residents 44-year-old Jadion Anthony Richards and 45-year-old Akwele Nickeisha Lawes-Richards were charged with felony organized retail theft in connection with the crime spree that started in September, The New York Times reported.

They were arrested Nov. 14 at a location in Woodbury, Minnesota, after hitting another store in Minnesota the day before, according to NBC News, which reported there was $50,000 in Lululemon clothing at Richards’ hotel room. The couple had stolen from three other Minnesota locations as well as from stores in Connecticut, New York, Colorado and Utah, the Times reported.

To pull off the thefts, Richards would enter a store and make a relatively small purchase, according to the Times. Then, he and Lawes-Richards would use a tool to attach a security tag from a different item in the store to one of Richards’ purchases, causing the alarm to go off when he left, the Times reported. Lawes-Richards and a third person would walk out ahead of Richards with stolen merchandise under their clothes, but employees would assume the alarm was from Richards and the misplaced security tag, according to the Times.