Police: Butler County woman faces possible charges after friend revives her with Narcan

Police and EMS were dispatched to an address in the 1000 block of South Locust Street in Oxford at 6:18 a.m. June 4 on a report of a person having died. When officers arrived, however, the woman was seated in the rear passenger seat of a vehicle with the EMS treating her for a possible drug overdose.

The owner of the vehicle said the woman is addicted to drugs but said she did not believe the woman had used drugs in the car.

She said the woman may have done so while in a gas station a short time before. She noticed the woman, who was not identified in the report because she had not been charged with any offenses, passed out in the back seat and used Narcan and CPR to revive her.

She gave permission to officers to search the vehicle and in a search of the woman’s purse, discovered a baggie with less than a gram of crystalized substance a plastic bottle with an unknown liquid, two cut plastic straws with white residue on them and a container with less than a gram of marijuana. Also found was an empty hypodermic syringe. A Narcan dispenser was found inside the front seat of the vehicle.

She was taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital for treatment and it was discovered she had warrants for her arrest out of Hamilton. She was informed to turn herself in.

Charges are pending lab results.

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