Fire official accused as drug dealing ringleader

A city fire official has been charged with being a major drug trafficker as the ringleader of a cocaine-dealing motorcycle club and another operation that sold pills containing fentanyl in upstate New York, state police said yesterday. Lieutenant Paul Smith, 48, of the Middletown Fire Department was among 29 people charged in the culmination of a six-month drug investigation, police said. Smith was immediately suspended without pay.