Officer sent to hospital after working at overdose scene

A Columbus police officer ended up going to the hospital after working to save the life of an overdose victim.

Columbus police were called to a parking lot in the 2200 block of North National Road at 5:10 p.m. yesterday afternoon about a possible overdose. They found 27-year-old Jonathan K. Mings of Columbus unconscious in a vehicle. After two doses of Narcan he woke up.

Officers noticed drugs and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle including small, white rocks when they believed to be pure fentanyl. But while packaging up the material, some escaped into the air. An officer was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital after being exposed to the drug and showing some symptoms. He was later released from the hospital.

Mings was taken to the hospital to be checked out before being arrested on preliminary charges for possessing the drugs and paraphernalia.