Rochester----A heroin overdose victim was saved while the friend who abandoned him moments earlier was arrested.
According to a news release from the Racine County Sheriff’s Dept., witnesses saw a man pulling another from a car Saturday afternoon at South Millgate Drive and East Main Street. After telling a passerby to call 911, the man then drove off, leaving his friend in the grass.
When deputies arrived, the victim, pulse-less and not breathing, was being given C-P-R by a Good Samaritan. The deputy administered a dose of Narcan, and the 20 year-old man came to.
Meanwhile, other deputies located the driver, a 22 year-old man who claimed he had left the scene in order to get help. Authorities didn’t buy it—he was arrested for endangering safety and driving while high on the same drug that got the other man in trouble. The overdose victim has already been released from the hospital.
Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling says he’s proud that his deputies saved yet another life from opioids. He says he hopes the man gets the help he needs, and that the justice system makes an example out of the man who left his friend.
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