Woman arrested after recovering from overdose

Amy Lackey. Photo courtesy of Columbus Police Department

A Columbus woman was arrested on drug-related charges after she was revived from an overdose by police officers.

Officers were called to a home in the 2000 block of Indiana Avenue at just before 7 last night on a reported overdose and found 33-year-old Amy M. Lackey unconscious and not breathing says Officer Alyson Rech with the police department.

After giving Lackey two doses of Narcan she revived and she was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital. Officers located a burnt spoon, a small amount of heroin and several syringes, Rech said.

After leaving the hospital Lackey was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of heroin, of a legend drug injection device and of drug paraphernalia.