By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org
LANCASTER – A judge has denied a bail hearing for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy siding with prosecutors who said he had fentanyl, heroin and a metabolite of cocaine in his system when his truck collided with a group of bikers last summer in Randolph.
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