Man with ‘golf ball’ sized bag of fentanyl in his mouth overdoses, arrested
Police discovered the bag of fentanyl after Louis Martinez spit it out of his mouth while inside an ambulance.
MANCHESTER, NH – A Massachusetts man was arrested after an apparent fentanyl overdose early Thursday morning.
At about 2 a.m. a concerned citizen contacted police to report a man, possibly intoxicated, walking in the area of Auburn Street between Beech and Union streets Officers responded within minutes and observed a man matching the description given by the caller, on the ground convulsing and foaming at the mouth from what appeared to be an opiate-induced overdose.
The man, later identified as Louis Martinez, 38, of Dorchester, Mass., was treated by AMR ambulance personnel and loaded into the ambulance. Martinez spit a golf ball-sized plastic bag from his mouth while inside of the ambulance. Officers seized the plastic bag and found it to contain 7.7 grams of a substance believed to be fentanyl. Martinez was charged with possession of controlled drug. He remains hospitalized.
