TAINTED ECSTASY SUSPECTED IN FATAL OVERDOSES
Mounties in the Okanagan community of Chase are warning the public about a potentially lethal batch of tainted ecstacy.
Two men are dead and two women are in hospital after taking what is believed to be tainted E while partying earlier this week.
“It is possible the stuff is tainted and harmful and potentially lethal,” Cpl. Mike Draper said yesterday.
Police and paramedics responded to a home on the Little Shuswap Lake Reserve at about 11:30 p.m. Monday and discovered a 19-year-old man, who had apparently overdosed after smoking marijuana and taking ecstacy. He died in hospital Wednesday.
About three hours later, paramedics were unable to revive a 51-year-old man on the Adams Lake Reserve.
The man’s girlfriend also became ill and was taken to hospital with a suspected drug overdose. She reported the man was drinking alcohol, injecting drugs and smoking hashish.
Another woman — a 20-year-old — overdosed on Wednesday and was taken to hospital.
All four of the victims are believed to have been using ecstacy prior to overdosing.
