A US federal agent administered the opioid antidote Narcan to award-winning rapper Juice WRLD after he went into convulsions during the search in a private hangar, authorities say.
US rapper Juice WRLD was given anti-overdose medication by a US federal agent just before his death in Chicago, authorities have confirmed.Suspected illegal drugs, prescription drugs and three guns were foundThe agent, who had been searching the rapper's private plane for drugs and firearms, administered the opioid antidote Narcan to him after he went into convulsions.
, and about a dozen other people had landed at Chicago's Midway International Airport at around 2:00am on Sunday . Federal agents and city police officers, acting on a tip that a private plane coming from Los Angeles was carrying guns and drugs, were waiting at the airport, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
During a search in a private hangar, a drug-sniffing dog made a"positive alert" on luggage carts that were loaded with bags from the plane, Mr Guglielmi said.
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