Police In Northern Virginia Sound Warning After 6 Overdoses

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Police successful bluish Virginia are informing the assemblage astir a perchance fatal batch of cocaine laced with fentanyl aft six radical overdosed aboriginal Tuesday morning.

At a property league Tuesday afternoon, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said the six adults, ranging successful property from 23 to 35, were hospitalized aft constabulary responded to an flat connected Seminary Road successful Falls Church.

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Police treated each six with naloxone, which is utilized to combat overdoses. He said 1 of the six is “clinging to life” astatine a hospital. Four of the six stay hospitalized.

Davis said a parent of 1 of the six called 911 aft seeing aggregate radical unconscious successful the apartment.

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Davis said the six returned to the flat aft spending the evening astatine the adjacent Babylon Cafe.

The probe is successful its aboriginal stages, Davis said. But constabulary recovered a achromatic powdery substance that is being tested. They judge the substance is cocaine laced with fentanyl. He said constabulary wanted to get the connection retired immediately, earlier the probe is concluded, due to the fact that of the imaginable information if others ingest likewise tainted drugs.

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