Taser used after EMTs attacked
A Summit Township woman is accused of attacking and injuring three medical workers and a firefighter called to help her following an apparent drug overdose at a Butler apartment Saturday night.
Moments later, 29-yearold Jennfier Blystone squared off with Butler police, who arrested her with the help of a Taser, according to court documents.
District Judge Dave Kovach arraigned Blystone on four counts of felony assault and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. She is being held in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 bail.
A call about 9 p.m. Saturday for a woman unconscious and not breathing sent police to an apartment in the 300 block of West Jefferson Street.
Police said when they got there they found a three-member crew with the Butler Ambulance Service and a city firefighter treating the defendant.
Eventually, Blystone regained consciousness, documents said. But she became “irate” and “took an aggressive stance on the medics and firefighters,” according to a police affidavit.
Police said she struck and kicked Nathan Bacher, paramedic supervisor; Sara Morgan, paramedic; Brice Sutton, emergency medical technician; and Don McCoy, a Butler firefighter. All four suffered minor injuries.
Blystone allegedly remained defiant when police advised her that she was under arrest. She “took an aggressive stance and refused to put her hands behind her back,” police said.
Officers took her to the ground but the suspect kicked at them, documents said. Police deployed a Taser before arresting her.
A search of Blystone’s purse, meanwhile, turned up an uncapped syringe and a spoon with suspected heroin residue on it, police said.
Additionally, inside the purse was a prescription bottle for the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam in the name of another woman.
