An officer who handled a substance, suspected to be fentanyl, with latex gloves started struggling to breathe Sunday, and he and two other officers were eventually sent to the hospital, according to a Spokane Police Department news release.
Fentanyl, 100 times more potent than morphine, can be deadly at small doses through inhalation or touch, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Around noon Sunday, officers had responded to a report of a man who’d been slumped over his steering wheel for at least two hours near 400 West Joseph Avenue, the release said.
The 29-year-old man also had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, the release said.
During a
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