Cops: Officer Helps Woman Breathe After OD

A Hopatcong police officer helped keep a semi-conscious woman breathing after she overdosed on heroin, said.

Officer Christopher Lotito responded to a Amy Phillip's Durban Court home to arrest her on a no-bail warrant out of Somerset County around 7:30 p.m. Monday, police said.

When he arrived, Lotito found that Phillips, 34, was still bleeding from injecting heroin into her hand, police said. But Carol Parks, a 47-year-old who had also recently injected heroin, was laying half-conscious on the living room floor, police said.

Lotito performed rescue breathing for Parks, who lives on Tulsa Trail, until the Hopatcong ambulance squad arrived, police said.

Phillips was charged with possession of heroin and turned over to the Somerset County Fugitive Squad, police said. Hopatcong police plan to charge Parks with possession of heroin upon release from the hospital, police said.

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Correction: An earlier verison of this story mispelled the officer's last name.