2 Phoenix police officers briefly hospitalized after exposure to powdery substance
Mike Cruz
Two Phoenix police officers were briefly hospitalized Tuesday after being exposed to a powdery substance later identified as cocaine, not fentanyl as initially reported.
The officers stopped a vehicle around 6 p.m. near 3000 West Heatherbrae Drive when they discovered the substance on the vehicle's floorboard, according to a Phoenix Police Department press statement.
The officers were later examining the white, powdery substance when one of the officers started to feel ill, the statement said.
Phoenix fire personnel were called to the Cactus Park Precinct, near 39th Avenue and Cactus Road. As a precaution, both officers were taken to a hospital, treated and released.
"The substance tested positive for cocaine not fentanyl," according to the police statement.
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