Police detectives are investigating an “alarming” drug case that left a 12-year-old girl overdosing on fentanyl in a city park, authorities said.
Bush told the Sentinel that the patient and another 12-year-old girl accompanying her, both of Santa Cruz, had been uncooperative with police about the details leading up to the overdose. However, a police investigation indicates that one of the girls arranged to meet an unknown man near a downtown parking structure in order to purchase suspected fentanyl. The girls, he said, were unaccompanied and unsupervised by any adults at the time.
After traveling to Depot Park, where the overdose occurred, the girl’s friend called 911, Bush said. After receiving care, the patient was released to the custody of her mother and was expected to receive substance use treatment services, he said. The state’s “Good Samaritan Law” provides limited protection from arrest, charge and prosecution for people who seek emergency medical assistance at the scene of a suspected drug overdose.
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