Two Huntington PD Officers Overdose After Heroin Gets Delivered To Hospital; Four Arrested
By Cowgirl On July 23, 2017
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Four suspects were arrested after two Huntington PD officers accidentally overdosed while processing heroin.
Correction: An earlier version mistakenly listed the state as Ohio, not West Virginia.
Huntington, WV – Four people have been arrested in connection with heroin delivered to a hospital patient, and the accidental overdose of two Cabell County police officers.
The incident began when one suspect, Clayton Scott Bates, age 22, was a patient at Cabell Huntington Hospital during the week of July 14, according to The Herald-Dispatch.
He decided that he needed heroin, so he gave $40 to Isiah Mathis, age 20, and Kelsey Danielle Runyon, age 20, to buy it from another suspect known as ‘Hollywood’.. Mathis and Runyon left the hospital, bought the heroin, and hid it at the hospital where Bates could find it. Runyon then called Bates to tell him where they had hidden the heroin.
Continued: https://bluelivesmatter.blue/huntington-police-officers-overdose/
It's the fentanyl mix that caused this...you must wear gloves and even double up on the gloves to handle this so it does not get on your skin...that is how toxic this stuff is.
The article clarifies that the officers accidentally became exposed to the stuff while they were logging it after seizure, not because they were heroin users. Both also self-medicated with Narcan and avoided overdosing.This isn't the first case of this. I recall one out of eastern Ohio, and there may have been another recently. Some of these drugs are lethal to touch, and the Narcan has saved the officers' lives.