Conservation Officer, Sargeant Jackson came upon a vehicle partially in the ditch on Queen Road near Plymouth LaPorte Trail Tuesday evening, August 29th at about 8:35. He found a male unresponsive in the driver seat.
The male, 25-year-old Johnnie McCarty IV of 9th Street in Rochester was administered two doses of Narcan and eventually transported to the Plymouth Hospital to be evaluated.
Officers with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to the hospital and a certified chemical test was completed.
Johnnie McCarty was then transported to the Marshall County Jail where he was booked for Operating a Motor Vehicle with a Controlled Substance, Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of Paraphernalia. He was held on a $1,500 cash bond.
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