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Heroin-Overdosing Passenger Saved By Long Island Police Recruit On NY Flight Heroin-Overdosing Passenger Saved By Long Island Police Recruit On NY Flight
Heroin-Overdosing Passenger Saved By Long Island Police Recruit On NY Flight A Long Island police recruit ready to unwind on a California vacation sprang into action when a fellow passenger became unconscious aboard a flight from New York. Suffolk County Police recruit Richard Scriven had just boarded his flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens on Friday, July 21, bound for his sister’s wedding, when a flight attendant came on the loudspeaker asking for trained medical professionals. Scriven, a former paramedic at Stony Brook University Hospital who recently completed his five-week medical training at the police academy, answered the call, accordin…

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by Michael Mashburn