PARKE COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – Officers used Naloxone to save a woman’s life on Tuesday night.
Naloxone is a drug that can be used to treat overdoses.
Parke County Sheriff’s Deputies went to a campsite at Turkey Run State Park to find a battery suspect identified as 27-year-old Jacob Fakes of Westfield.
He was found in his vehicle, along with a female passenger who was unresponsive with no pulse and agonal breathing.
She was given three doses of Naloxone. The woman regained consciousness and was transported to the hospital for further treatment.
Fakes, meanwhile, is in the Parke County Jail on charges of battery, strangulation, possession of a hypodermic needle and resisting law enforcement.
