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Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
Deputies conducting a traffic enforcement stop discovered a passenger in the vehicle actively overdosing and was able to administer naloxone to the passenger, saving his life.
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at approximately 11:14 p.m., Sheriff’s Deputy Brady stopped a vehicle for traffic violations in the area of Highway 101 northbound near Dos Pueblos Canyon. During the traffic stop, Deputy Brady noticed that an adult male passenger in the vehicle was purple in the face and had labored breathing.
Deputy Brady requested an ambulance respond and worked with Deputy Ramirez to quickly remove the passenger from the vehicle. Deputies believed the passenger was actively overdosing and quickly administered Naloxone nasal spray. Medics arrived shortly afterwards and took over patient care.
The patient was transported to a local hospital and is expected to survive.
Deputies found the driver of the vehicle, 27-year-old Destiny Tumey from Lompoc, in possession of suspected fentanyl, methamphetamine, and a glass methamphetamine pipe. During a search of the vehicle, deputies found approximately 914 grams of suspected methamphetamine and approximately 23 grams of marijuana.
Deputies arrested Tumey for possession of a controlled substance (misdemeanor), possession of narcotics (misdemeanor), possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor), and being under the influence of a controlled substance. She was booked at the Main Jail and later released with a citation.
Deputies have also requested that the District Attorney consider charging Tumey with possession of narcotics for sales.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office would like to encourage the public to call for help if they witness a suspected overdose.
AB 472, California’s 911 Good Samaritan law, states: “It shall not be a crime for any person who experiences a drug-related overdose, as defined, who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance, or any other person who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for the person experiencing a drug related overdose, to be under the influence of, or to possess for personal use, a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia, under certain circumstances related to a drug-related overdose that prompted seeking medical assistance if that person does not obstruct medical or law enforcement personnel.”
Thank you LE for saving this person’s life, and the lives of countless others. Why people would want or even think that it was a good idea to defund the police is beyond me. I get it that “defund the police” does not mean taking funding away from LE, but it just sounds bad. For example, if I said that we should defund the UCSB Art or Dance or Gender Studies or any of the Ethnic Studies program(s), what would just about any person think?
Bottom line is that this person has another chance to get it right or not get it right, and that’s a good thing (IMHO).
My nephew rotted in his tent next to the freeway for a week before they found him. Drugs, booze, and years (25) on the streets of LA, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, and San Jose, It was the fentanyl finally got him in the end. I’m sure he would have preferred to live another day, but on the other hand, maybe he did not.
It takes a very rotten person or persons to take advantage of “social rot”.
Taking drugs is a choice and people that take drugs know there are consequences and start using regardless to those consequences.
Selling drugs is sociopathic and there should be severe consequences for selling anything illegal and deadly.
Ironic that some of the people “escaping cartels” are paying cartels to smuggle them into the USA and many are willing to carry in drugs for the cartel in return for a discount on the coyote fees.
I always laugh out loud when I read about these bogeyman corporations, the “man” keeping us down.
Locally we have the Borgatello family that built an empire after starting a business hauling trash away from the estates of the rich in a donkey cart.
There are at least 10 hispanic guys in the area who have turned a simple gardener business into landscape businesses that gross millions per year by working their butts to the bone.
Usually the blame for repeated failure isn’t corporations, its the individually who keeps making choices that lead to failure.
But lets say the individual learns from failure and starts to make more $$$. Do those corporations swoop in and take it away? Possibly prices go up, but first in line is the IRS and the state of CA FTB. You earn more, you pay more and at the end of the day 4-15-2022 you will only have improved your position marginally. This happens every step of the journey.
So you realize that to make more money, you need to produce more work, so you hire people.
Now you are a cash cow for the Government and Insurance companies. Insurance that you are required to have by government law. You will become an unpaid “volunteer” book keeper for the government and you’ll need an accountant on top of your insurance broker. You will now be sending a check to the IRS and FTB for Unemployment, Disabilty etc etc and also will be responsible for matching your employees Social Security adding 6.2% to their payments.
You will enjoy the conversations with your employees when you need to tell them why their new $4HR raise adds up to $1.50 of actual take home after federal and state celebrate their new raise by increasing their withholdings. You will learn to love conversations with clients, explaining that all of your staff got raises and the labor burden grew, so you need to charge more and the clients say: “Sorry, can’t afford that”.
This is why I particularly admire the guys noted above who built businesses where early on they competed against undocumented labor. They heard: “Oh, thats too much, my friend only pays $14HR for her gardener” from the client that has a “Tax the Rich” bumpersticker who pays cash or personal check under the table.
With how deadly this is, shouldn’t we be doing everything possible, hitting both the supply and demand? Alex here are some stats on that https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics They’re regularly catching massive quantities of this stuff coming over the boarder so increasing order security would increase the amount seizures = less of it getting here = less people dying. Looking at how we moved heaven and earth for covid yet more, significantly more based on Somewhere Overs comment, people are dying from fentanyl yet it feels like we’re sweeping the issue under the rug.
VOR, you entirely ignore my point. As long as there is demand there will always be supply. It’s all about allocating resources to have the greatest positive impact. I suspect that a billion dollars on drug treatment, education and mental health treatment will result in a much higher impact on fentanyl deaths than a billion on filling in some gaps in border security.
Why even cite her for the drugs ? nobody’s going to do anything
Have to disagree with the previous poster who stated that those that are doing hardcore drugs like this are doing so because “the greedy are crippling their ability to make ends meet”. There are a WHOLE LOT of very middle class, comfortable, non-economically disadvantaged…whatever you want to call it…people that are falling into this. It’s not just the economically down and out. Not even close.
A few years ago people we’re up in arms about spending $4 billion to improve our southern border wall. That number seems like such a drop in the bucket compared to what we’ve printed over the past 2 years. While the improvements certainly aren’t 100% effective, they do work at limiting the amount of illicit products like that brought into our country illegally. How much additional fentanyl is in our country now than if we completed the wall/improvements? How many more young people would still be alive if the fentanyl they OD’d on what so widely avaiailbe? Are those deaths worth it so you could say “F-Trump!”?
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for those 18-45 and since 20202 HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE UNDER 45 THAN COVID! We’re basically ignoring the fentanyl epidemic yet is it more dangerous and kills more people in most age brackets than covid. Seriously, how do you reconcile that and look at the past two years as anything but a giant failure?
???’s how do YOU equate a “Traffic stop” to some political agenda??? Both comments reference something OTHER that the actual post?
Most immigrants want refuge here so that they won’t be forced into working for the drug Cartels. Hasn’t it ever occurred to you and those who think like you that by not giving them refuge here we are forcing them to return to working for the cartels, thus enabling and supporting the drug trade that we are against? Smh
You’re not able to equate my comments about our massive fentanyl problem and how it’s the leading cause of death for people under 45 to this article about someone who OD’d from fentanyl during a traffic stop, saved by Narcan, and was in possession of fentanyl and other illicit drugs? I’m not sure I can help you there.
Lina24, providing refuge – which I assume you mean asylum – is a legal process people go through when they get to the border – and improvements to the border wall wouldn’t have impacted the legal asylum process. My comments have ZERO to do with that, but are directed at our massive and deadlier-than-covid drug problem.
Lina24, how many young people in the US need to die from fentanyl coming across our southern border before it’s okay for us to talk about securing our southern border (which has nothing to do with providing refuge to immigrants)?
Right. Because a colorless, odorless, extremely potent, mass produced, white powder would be so difficult to slip past a border crossing undetected…
There are 200,000k vehicles passing across the Mexico / US border every day.
The real reason we have this issue is the Drug War and the inhumane and stupid practice of treating the sick as criminals. Not too mention the fact that we spent trillions criminalizing our people and creating a massive black market that feeds the gangs, the narcos and the Police billions in easy money.
BTW: This was the Party line for the Republican Party for most of the 80’s-10’s. Its the R’s policies that created and fostered the problem and still to this day, its their benefactors who profit heavily from the heavy handed militarization of the issue.
The irony is that the places with the worst issues of dependency and Mexican/Central American sourced drugs are all Red states… Once again Conservatives get it wrong, the people suffer and the Party benefactors profit handsomely…
SBO, I agree with you that the Drug War was a failure, but you seem to take the point that “hey it’s hard to stop it from coming in so let’s not even try”. Rather have them trying to make it through actual border crossings with customs, DEA agents, x-ray machines and K9’s (which can sniff out fentanyl contrary to your odorless claim) than just strolling through the desert. China is making it, it’s coming into the US from the south, yet the consensus here is stick our heads in that sand to that part…