MOULTRIE, Ga. — A man who collapsed from a possible drug overdose Tuesday afternoon in a restroom at a Moultrie restaurant was taken to jail after he refused medical treatment following his resuscitation.

A companion with Joseph Noonchester started CPR and was relieved by first responder Curtis Akridge, a firefighter and emergency medical responder with the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department.

Akridge was in the 900 block of North Main Street at the scene of a wreck when the 911 call came in at about 5:19 p.m. for assistance with a man who was unresponsive and had no pulse at Subway, 10 W. Central Ave.

“I took over compressions for her,” Akridge said. “Moultrie Fire Department got there pretty shortly. We pretty much had him revived before the ambulance got there.”

Noonchester, 32, refused to go to the hospital once paramedics from Colquitt County Regional Medical Center got there, Akridge and Moultrie police said.

“He was actually able to walk away,” Akridge said of this, his second CPR save since joining the Berlin volunteers in 2014. “I wouldn’t take nothing for them.”

Akridge was unaware of what happened to Noonchester with police after he was revived.

To fill in that gap in the narrative, Moultrie Police Department Lt. Freddie Williams explained that Noonchester went to jail. He has been charged with possession of a Schedule II substance — specifically oxycodone.

Apparently Noonchester had crushed oxycodone in a water solution, he said.

“Further investigation revealed that he was in the bathroom injecting the oxycodone,” Williams said. “He refused (additional) treatment.”