Middletown Man Injured Officers After Overdose: Police

MIDDLETOWN, PA — A Middletown man fought with, and injured, police officers who had just helped revive him after an apparent overdose on Sunday, according to authorities.

Cody Todd, 28, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and harassment in the case.

According to police, Middletown Township officers were called to a home on Woodbourne Road on Sunday to a report of a drug overdose. There, officers found Todd lying in a fetal position on the floor at the bottom of a stairwell, police said.

Penndel-Middletown Emergency Squad members administered Narcan, a drug that counteracts the impact of opioid overdoses. When they did, police say, Todd got up and started fighting with a medic and two police officers.

He kept fighting even after he was handcuffed, police say, kicking and biting officers. He was eventually subdued with a Taser. But, during the fray, police say an officer was accidentally hit by the Taser as well.

Two officers, including the one struck by probes from the Taser, were injured and needed medical care. The injures included an ankle injury and a puncture wound, according to police.

Police spokesman Lt. Stephen Forman said Narcan, which can be administered nasally or by IV, does not generally result in a subject becoming violent. He said police believe Todd's violent reaction may have been related to the drugs he'd taken before the overdose.

The Philadelphia region has some of the highest heroin purity rates in the nation and, in several cases last year, subjects had violent responses to other drugs blended with heroin that was sold on the streets in Philadelphia, he said.

Todd was taken to Bucks County Prison, where he was being held on 10% of $100,000 bail.