Woman Faces Drug Charges After Man ODs in Her Apartment

A local woman was arrested last month on drug charges after a friend reportedly overdosed in her apartment.

Shanna M. Lamos, 36, of Prospect Street in Concord, was arrested at 1:55 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2015, and charged with possession of controlled drugs, a felony, resisting arrest or detention, and penalties; possession of controlled/narcotic drugs.

According to an arrest report and court affidavit, officers were sent to an apartment on Prospect Street for a report of an overdose that fire and rescue teams had been called to.

Officers spoke to two women. One, Lamos, reportedly said the man didn’t live there and was just a friend. Earlier in the day, she reportedly stated, he asked to come over to hang out. She allegedly said he took some prescription medications “but nothing else.”

Paramedics revived the man with Narcan and he “came back alive.” During the process of reviving the man, one of the other officers allegedly saw “two syringe caps resting on a small can in the bedroom along with a bag of beige colored powder on top of a cellphone that was resting on a small television,” according to a report.

The officer went back to speak with Lamos about his observations and requested a consent search of the apartment. She allegedly asked to call her attorney first before giving consent and pointed out that she needed to get to her cellphone where the suspected drugs were.

“Lamos was told that she could not her have the phone at this point as it was located with the evidence,” according to the report, which also noted she was becoming “more and more agitated.”

The officers offered to call her attorney or have dispatch call her attorney. But Lamos allegedly started roaming around the apartment, claiming to look for cigarettes. Both Lamos and the other woman were asked to sit at the kitchen table while other units were called to the scene, surmising that they would have to apply for a search warrant.

The reporting officer alleged that Lamos “started screaming” about speaking to attorney and how police were searching her house illegally.” She allegedly started “flailing her arms around screaming” at the officers. The officers decided to detain her and she allegedly continued to scream and kicked a garbage can, while being escorted out of the apartment.

A second officer spoke to the victim who reportedly thanked first responders for saving his life. He stated that he had just gotten out of rehabilitation and he should have “never gone there to pick up.”

When speaking about the situation, the officer asked the man whether or not he had snorted the heroin and used a syringe. The man reportedly stated that he snorted the drug, not injected it. He denied any knowledge about what happened to the heroin afterwards since he had passed out immediately. He reportedly stated that the bag of heroin, cellphone, and syringe caps were not his.

Lamos was held on $5,000 cash bail and was arraigned on Jan. 5.

Editor’s note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. Click this link to find out how to get a name removed from a New Hampshire Patch police report.