Police work’s unexpected perils were on display in south central Pennsylvania Sunday morning, where a cop got a crippling snout-full of drugs during a routine search of a suspect’s car!
Two officers from Washington Township responded to the scene of a one-car accident 12:30 a.m. Sunday, and suspected that the crashed vehicle’s operator — Travis Ross (right), 34, of Leechburg, Penn. — was under the influence of alcohol. The officers’ report claims that Ross, who resisted arrest, told them that his I.D. was in the center console of his vehicle.
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When the officer popped open the console, a powdery substance that police say was either heroin or fentanyl wafted out into his face. Almost immediately he found his heartbeat racing, felt a burning in his chest, and fell to his knees in the roadway.
Emergency medical technicians, who had been summoned to the scene even before the cop’s cloud encounter, administered the overdose-intervention drug Narcan before rushing him to the local hospital. He was released later that morning and is expected to be okay.
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Police say a search of Ross’s allegedly self-crashed car turned up stamp bags of heroin and an as-yet-unidentified powder on the driver’s seat. In addition to the DUI, officials charged Ross with resisting arrest and possession of a controlled substance.
