Police officer saves man choking on bag of marijuana during routine traffic stop
Trooper Charles Hoskin was seen on camera successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on the man
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An Ohio state trooper is being credited with saving a choking man who swallowed a bag of illegal marijuana during a traffic stop.
"Don’t try to swallow a bag of drugs prior to getting pulled over in an attempt to keep a trooper from finding them. Luckily, Tpr. Hoskin from our Ravenna Post was alert and able to assist the man who was choking on a bag of illegal marijuana," the Ohio State Patrol’s official Twitter account wrote on Thursday, accompanied by footage of the scene.
The video shows Trooper Charles Hoskin approaching 24-year-old Stephan R. Elash during a traffic stop. Hoskin is seen asking Elash if he is okay as the 24-year-old gets out of the vehicle and is choking.
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Hoskin then successfully performs the Heimlich maneuver on him.
"What did you swallow?" Hoskin asks Elash after the bag of marijuana is dislodged from his throat.
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"A gram of weed, officer. I’m sorry," Elash responds.
Hoskin tells the man that an ambulance is coming to the scene to "make sure everything is good."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I’m sorry," Elash says again.
"I know … [It’s] a minor misdemeanor. You want to die over a minor misdemeanor?" the officer asks, eliciting Elash to say, "No."
Elash was initially pulled over for going 94 miles per hour in a 70 miles per hour zone. He was cited for speeding and failing to wear a seatbelt. He also received a misdemeanor summons for marijuana possession.
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The incident comes after a rookie officer saved a choking baby in Arkansas in a scene that was also caught on camera.
"We were trying to give Grady his medicine … and he was taking them just fine," Joe Chronister, the baby’s father, told "Fox & Friends" in June. "Right towards the end, he started choking."
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Officer Cody Hubbard responded to the scene and was able to dislodge the medicine from his throat.
"It was life-changing," Hubbard said of the incident.