Milwaukee Medical Examiner responds to five probable overdose deaths in less than five hours Saturday

The Milwaukee Medical Examiner's Office is reporting that five people died from possible drug overdoses in less than five hours on Saturday. The two most recent deaths occurred sometime in the evening when a male and a female died from a suspected overdose near downtown Milwaukee.

The Medical Examiner's Office says that since Friday morning, there have been a total of nine probable overdose deaths, mostly occurring in the City of Milwaukee.