WILTON MANORS, Fla. — A group of U.S. Military Academy cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl Thursday in South Florida while on spring break.
The incident occurred at a vacation rental home in Wilton Manors.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Steve Gollan told NBC affiliate WTVJ that multiple people were found in cardiac arrest Thursday in the front yard of the home on Northwest 29th Court.
A statement from the U.S. Military Academy's public affairs office Friday confirmed that some cadets were involved.
"The incident is currently under investigation and no other details are available at this time," the statement said.
Gollan said two of the six college students who overdosed were sickened because they tried to give CPR to the initial overdose victims.
He said the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone was administered.
Two of the victims remained intubated Friday at Broward County hospitals.
The U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, is one of the nation's five service academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers in the Armed Forces.
