Cops: Unconscious Man Was Oozing Blue Liquid

Police say they found the man in a still-running vehicle in a parking lot, with a blue liquid oozing from his nose and mouth.

That blue liquid was suspected to be Adderall, a prescription medication commonly used to treat Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, but also highly abused for its side-effects, police said. Officers also found in the vehicle white pills suspected to be a generic equivalent to the muscle-relaxer Soma, and an unknown crushed white powder in an unmarked pill bottle, police said.

Police arrested and charged Michael Treppiccione, 22, of Bernardsville, with driving while intoxicated, driving while suspended, possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, possession of a prescription legend drug, possession of drug paraphenalia, unlawful taking of a means of conveyance and receiving stolen property shortly after 3 p.m. on Dec. 19.

Morristown Police officer Christopher Oakley responded to the visitors parking garage at Morristown Medical Center on report of "an unresponsive male" in a running vehicle, police said.

Oakley, and fellow Officers Brian LaBarre and J. Dickerson, located Treppiccione slumped over the wheel of a running silver Volkswagen on the first floor of the lot, according to a police incident report. Dickerson, who also works at the hospital off-duty, told the other officers he had shouted at and shook Treppiccione awake, and Treppiccione said he did not know where he was, according to the report.

When asked what the blue liquid was running down his nose and out of his mouth, Treppiccione said, "I snorted a bunch of Adderall," according to the report. He also told police he had taken "Soma and coke," according to the report.

Treppiccione also told police the vehicle he was found in was not his, though he did not know whose it was and how he had ended up in it at the hospital, according to the report.

Police in Basking Ridge—where the vehicle was registered—located the owner and advised him of the situation, according to the report. The owner said he had not been aware that the vehicle—registered under the name of his son, who was currently out of the country—had been stolen. The man also said he did not know who Treppiccione was, and said he did not suspect his son knew him, either, according to the report.

Treppiccione was transported over to the Emergency Department at the hospital, according to the report. When being examined, a glass pipe fell out of his pants, to which he replied to police, "I smoked some coke with it before," according to the report.

Besides the summonses issued in Morristown, Treppiccione was found to have several outstanding warrants totalling $2,000 out of Orange, as well as active charges out of Bernardsville, according to the report. Treppiccione was released from the hospital at 6:45 p.m., processed and placed in a holding cell at the , according to the report.

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