UPDATE: Video: Man Rescued After Near Drowning in Pond

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) — A routine traffic stop turns into a life-saving rescue from a near-drowning in a freezing pond.

At 12:06 a.m. Wednesday,  Columbus Police officer Max Branch stopped a GMC Jimmy on Pickensville Road in what is known as the S curves. When Branch told the driver, 28-year-old Marcel Robinson, he was driving on a suspended license and would be arrested, ran into the adjacent woods and jumped into one of the many gravel pits that dot the area.

He stopped breathing in the cold water, but Branch and fellow officer Canyon Boykin pulled him from the water and restored his pulse with CPR.

Firefighters, police and sheriff’s deputies got him out of the woods and he was taken by ambulance to Baptist Golden Triangle for treatment.

As of Wednesday afternoon, charges had not yet been filed. A search of his vehicle uncovered nothing illegal.

 

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