It was supposed to be a joyous moment for a group of U.S. Military Academy students when they were on vacation in South Florida.
However, four of the students turned the joyous moment into tragedy after they overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine and suffered cardiac arrest. Two other Spring Breakers were exposed to the lethal synthetic opioid fentanyl after attempting to resuscitate those who passed out. The six students were hospitalized after a 911 call was made.
A frantic 911 call describes the moment the students began panicking after their friends were passing out. According to audio of more than four minutes of emergency calls obtained by the Daily Mail, commotion and yelling could be heard in the background. The call also shows how the students were uncertain about the address for the Wilton Manors rental home.
“Yo, get him on the couch. Get him on the couch, bro,” a man shouted in a recording of the 911 call.
“Tell me exactly what happened,” the dispatcher said.
“We took some coke and we’re not getting [inaudible] responses right now,” the caller responded.
The dispatcher pressed for more information.
“People are passing out,” the caller said. “Three people passed out.”
“Three people are passing out?” the dispatcher asked.
“Yeah, it’s because they drank a lot. Like, a lot, a lot,” he said.
The caller said the students who passed out got drunk.
In the moment of desperation, after the dispatcher asked the caller to stay on the line, it disconnected. A call back only reached a voicemail.
When dispatchers reached the caller again, he struggled to say where they were.
“I’m sorry. This is terrible. I don’t even know where I’m at right now,” he said.
He again explained what led to the desperate situation unfolding in front of him.
“They did some coke, and they’ve been drinking heavily for the last couple days,” he said.
Someone cried in the background as the caller attempted to reassure the person who was panicking.
“I know, bro. We good, we good,” he said, attempting to console the friend who let out inaudible words through tears.
The three people were still unresponsive, the caller said.
“Hold it together. Hold it to- f—— -gether,” someone in the background yelled.
A 21-year-old suspect, Axel Giovany Casseus, was apprehended after an undercover detective purchased cocaine from him, leading to his arrest late Friday on a drug trafficking charge. An arrest report says investigators found Casseus’ cellphone number on one of the overdose victims’ phones.
Casseus appeared before a judge on Saturday in Broward County court. He faces a cocaine trafficking charge and is being held on a $50,000 bond. The victims remain on ventilators.
