LIVE VIDEO: NAACP responds to drug-related charges against longtime San Jose police union executive.
Joanne Marian Segovia is charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, a fentanyl analogue. If convicted, she faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
The NAACP will be joined by a coalition of community groups and watchdogs calling for greater accountability at 2 p.m. outside San Jose City Hall.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. "She's been the grandma of the POA," Police union President Sean Pritchard said of Segovia."This is not the person we've known, the person who has worked with fallen officers' families, organized fundraisers for officers' kids - just not who we've known over a decade."The San Jose police union's longtime executive director has been charged with attempting to import illegal synthetic opioid drugs from overseas in a scheme to distribute them in the U.S.
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