Detective saves man’s life
PA Auckland An Auckland crime squad detective saved the life of a man he found unconscious from a drug overdose in Ponsonby on Saturday. The rescue led to the police arresting three persons in connection with the burglary of a chemist’s shop in Karangahape Road on. Friday night in which a large quantity of dangerous drugs was taken. Detective Sergeant P. S. Stevenson discovered the un-
conscious man, aged 26, lying on a bed in a Ponsonby house. Sergeant Stevenson was inquiring into another matter at the time. He described how he revived the man, who is thought to have swallowed drugs taken from the shop. “He' was just lying there not breathing. I thought he had died but I applied mouth-to-mouth resusciation. After two or three minutes he started breathing again but he was still deeply unconscious,” Sergeant Stevenson said. The sick man was then put on a respirator in an ambulance and taken to an intensive-care unit, where his condition is serious.
In the house the police found some of the drugs and goods taken from the chemist’s shop.
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Press, 20 August 1979, Page 2
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