I don't know anything about the person involved here, so I won't comment beyond saying this must be a great personal tragedy for him. From the Jersey Journal:
WEEHAWKEN - Former Union City Police Chief Paul J. Hanak was among 15 people arrested Thursday after a series of police raids by a task force of local law enforcement trying to crack down on heroin and cocaine distribution, reports said.
Hanak, 60, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after officers searched his one-bedroom apartment on Dodd Street in Weehawken and found "crack pipes and vials with controlled dangerous substances in plain view," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday.
Well, now, that must have been an interesting arrest to make!