A 37-year-old man gave Prince George RCMP a tough weekend to endure as he was reported on five separate occasions within 24 hours.
On Friday night, RCMP were called to a Queensway motel, when a Good Samaritan tried to revive a Prince George resident, who had overdosed from heroin and fentanyl, or possibly both.
Officers eventually revived him and was taken to hospital.
In the following 12 hours, the same man was reported three separate times for Causing a Disturbance at a home on Redwood Street in the VLA, including once while intoxicated.
“Given that he had just overdosed and he was grossly intoxicated, we took him to the hospital to get treated and cared for,” explains RCMP Corporal Craig Douglass.
“The second time, when he was sober, he was knocking on a door, which there’s nothing we could arrest him for in that case. The next [third] time we got a call to the same home, he wasn’t that intoxicated and he could care for himself.”
More than six hours later, police were called to the same motel on Queensway where the man had overdosed and was revived by police a second time, but this time, he denied medical treatment.
Corporal Douglass says in both incidents, the man was uncooperative with RCMP and describes how unusual these situations are.
“This is obviously very rare, and the fact that we dealt with him at least five times within 24 hours is completely unusual. It can be frustrating for officers dealing with these people, especially when there’s not much that we can do.”
He says police did not receive comment from anyone who witnessed the man’s actions at the VLA home to support criminal charges.
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