Police said officers recently got sent to a Riverside hospital where a child almost died from a fentanyl overdose. One of the child's parents was reportedly being uncooperative with hospital staff.
"The drug dealers just want your money," said Riverside PD Public Information Officer Ryan Railsback. "They don't care if you die."In the city of Riverside, police are investigating fives cases that took place in the span of just about 27 hours.
Police were called to Kaiser Medical Center in Riverside around 11 a.m. Monday with hospital staff reporting that one parent of a three-year-old patient was being uncooperative."This was actually a family of five; two parents and their 2-, 3- and 5-year-old kids who were homeless, living out of a car," said Railsback. "When they brought the child back to life, basically by using Narcan, they did a blood test and found he'd overdosed on fentanyl.
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