Mr. Derek P. Champagne

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  Published on: 11/3/2009    Last Visited: 11/3/2009  

  Franklin County District Attorney Derek P. Champagne said Monday he notified the U.S. attorney's office about the incident. He was told federal authorities would investigate the matter.
  
  "The members of the Warrior Society dug up a border monument, which depicts the international boundary between the U.S. and Canada," Mr. Champagne said.
  
  The marker on St. Regis Road was dug up with a backhoe Friday afternoon, a video posted to YouTube shows. The edited 10-minute video then displays the massive obelisk loaded on a trailer and driven away. A wooden pole, with two purple and white flags waving in the wind, was placed at the marker site.
  
  Mr. Champagne said St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police stopped the truck, but officers didn't confiscate the massive marker and allowed the truck to leave after a discussion with Warrior Society members.

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  Published on: 11/4/2009    Last Visited: 11/5/2009  

  County district attorney: Derek Champagne (R,D), 7,958.

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  Members of the task force will include a representative from the Attorney General's office, Franklin County District Attorney Derek P. Champagne, Monroe County District Attorney Michael C. Green, Wyoming County District Attorney Gerald Stout, Executive Director of the New York State Association of Counties Stephen Acquario, Executive Director of the New York State Association of Towns G. Jeffrey Haber, and New York Public Interest Research Group Legislative Director Blair Horner.

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  Published on: 10/21/2009    Last Visited: 10/21/2009  

  "We're refocused to those who knew her best and knew the house the best," Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne said during an update for community members Monday evening at the Westville Town Hall.
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  Champagne, who held a moment of silence in her memory before he began his remarks, said investigators have had "a staggering amount of leads and a staggering amount of work."
  
  Of the 615 leads logged, 100 of them came in the past 12 months, the DA said.
  
  The number of leads and the information they provided is what led to refocusing the case to those who knew her and knew her home, rather than continuing a wider search "all over the Northeast," Champagne said.
  
  A $16,000 reward remains in place for any information that leads to the arrest and successful prosecution of the killer or killers.
  
  Following the murder, the community of Westville formed a Neighborhood Watch Program. Champagne praised its members for their work reporting suspicious behavior and other information to authorities.

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  Published on: 10/6/2009    Last Visited: 10/6/2009  

  "There is easily a billion dollars' worth of marijuana coming through this northern border," says Franklin County district attorney Derek Champagne.

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  Published on: 7/3/2009    Last Visited: 7/3/2009  

  They all face felony drug charges that could bring prison sentences of eight years or longer, said Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne.
  
  "People think this marijuana trade is no big deal. Then you see that the people making money off of this are organized crime in a major metropolitan area," Champagne said.
  
  Authorities said they seized $1.3 million in cash, a pound of cocaine, 14 vehicles and a boat during raids in St. Lawrence and Franklin counties along the Canadian border in New York and in Beachwood and Willoughby, Ohio.
  
  The investigation is continuing, and Champagne said more charges will be filed against the suspects. Additional arrests also are likely, he said.
  
  Ohio authorities were investigating money laundering by the Russian mob in suburban Cleveland and came to Champagne in 2008 after they learned the group was getting large shipments of marijuana from upstate New York.
  
  Champagne said almost all of that smuggling comes through the St. Regis reservation, which straddles the U.S.-Canadian border and is split by the St. Lawrence River.
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  Champagne also noted the increasing violence linked to marijuana smuggling.

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  Published on: 6/3/2009    Last Visited: 6/4/2009  

  Some Republicans favor Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne; he said he is interested, but hasn't decided whether to run.

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  Published on: 1/20/2009    Last Visited: 1/20/2009  

  Derek Champagne Franklin County District Attorney

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  Published on: 8/11/2009    Last Visited: 8/12/2009  

  Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne delivered a check Monday to Saranac Lake Police Chief Bruce Nason.
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  Forfeiture cash can take from four months to two years to be released, Champagne said, depending on litigation.
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  "Of that, $300,000 to $400,000 will be coming back to Franklin County," Champagne said.
  
  Saranac Lake Police were involved in that investigation, as well.
  
  Raid forfeiture cash has allowed the DA to hire a full-time drug-trafficking investigator to coordinate police efforts. "We've begun dismantling large networks," Champagne said, from source to large suppliers.
  
  Confiscated money is used in ongoing investigations, which prove costly.
  
  A phone bill "listening to" eight or 10 phone lines can cost as much as $25,000 a month, Champagne said.
  
  The District Attorney's Office also sends undercover investigators out with cash to buy large amounts of drugs. Last winter, for instance, Franklin County sent an agent to Salt Lake City with $50,000 to break up a cocaine ring tied to the North Country.
  
  "Fortunately, we've been able to do it with the drug dealers' money," Champagne said.
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  District Attorney Derek Champagne
  
  Kim Smith Dedam/Staff Photo

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  Published on: 6/28/2009    Last Visited: 6/28/2009  

  Champagne chairs state drug-offense panel Champagne heads statewide committee
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  MALONE - Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne will head a statewide committee to track drug-related crimes following recent State Legislature changes to existing laws.
  
  State District Attorneys Association President David Donovan of Richmond County made the announcement earlier this month that Champagne would chair the newly formed Drug Law Revision Impact Committee "and monitor the effects the new drug laws will have in our state."
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  "We hope to see that the new drug laws are working even though we were opposed to them," Champagne said.
  
  The prosecutors' association opposed the changes because when the original drug laws adopted in the 1970s were revised in 2004, there was a marked decrease in inmate population and instances of violent crimes, Champagne said.
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  "We've been taken out of the picture," Champagne said.
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  "We just want an honest assessment and evaluation of the policy to see if it is effective," Champagne said.
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  Champagne, who is first vice president of the association and slated to become president in July 2010, said if the revised laws aren't working, "we hope to have a proposal that identifies the problem, and the association will make a recommendation to whoever is governor then."

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