On Tuesday, two Secret Service Uniformed Division officers were hospitalized after they were exposed to a white powdery substance while making a routine traffic stop in Washington, D.C.
“Shortly before 11a.m., Secret Service Uniformed Division made a traffic stop in the 1700 Blk of New York Avenue. During the stop, officers came in contact with a powdery substance believed to be suspected narcotics. One individual taken into custody and officers are being evaluated,” the Secret Service’s Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.
CBS News reporter Nicole Sganga later reported that the officers were exposed to “horse tranquilizer.”
“Officers with the Secret Service Uniformed Division made a traffic stop in the 1700 Block of New York Avenue in Washington, D.C. around 11 a.m. Tuesday. During the stop, officers came in contact with what USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described as a ‘powdery substance believed to be suspected narcotics,’” Fox News reported.
In all, one individual was taken into custody, and multiple officers were evaluated. The incident occurred about two miles from the U.S. Naval Observatory, the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The incident comes as the U.S. currently faces one of the worst drug crises in decades as fentanyl and other narcotics flood across the southern border. The DEA last week warned parents of possible trick-or-treaters to keep an eye on their children’s candy.
“So let’s take, for example, teenagers. They go to parties. We all know that some of them do drugs, and they bring these drugs to party. So if you’ve got these pills floating around parties that look like candy, then people are going to take them. And they may not even know that they’re taking a deadly substance because that’s what they are. They’re deadly substances,” said Tanya Tilghman, a member of Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths.
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