WEBSTER— A man with four outstanding warrants dove out an apartment window during a 2am overdose call that initially had just one officer available to respond, triggering a multi-agency foot chase through backyards, fences, and bushes, authorities said.

Police say the overnight shift was already stretched thin when the lone officer arrived at the Market Street apartment and found multiple people inside, including a man suffering from a suspected drug overdose and a fugitive hiding in the bathroom.

As officers worked to stabilize the overdose victim, the bathroom door suddenly burst open and the suspect — identified as 30-year-old Angel Torres — jumped straight out the window and took off running into the darkness.

Backup from Dudley, Oxford, Westborough, and the Massachusetts State Police poured into the area as Torres vaulted fences and vanished into dense brush between Market Street and North Main. A K9 team and a police drone were deployed to search yards, wooded patches, and a stone wall lining the back of the property.

A Dudley sergeant eventually spotted Torres wedged beneath the wall, hiding in a thicket of bushes. Officers pulled him out and arrested him.

Torres was taken into custody on four separate warrants, including charges of carrying a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest, drug distribution, possession of Class B and Class E drugs, assault and battery, and strangulation/suffocation. Police say he now faces new charges of possessing fentanyl and Class B drugs.

A second individual in the apartment, 52-year-old Jennifer Konicki, was also arrested on an outstanding warrant for larceny of a motor vehicle, vandalizing property, and conspiracy.

The overdose victim was treated at the scene.

This comes as Gov. Maura Healey has poured massive resources into the state’s expanding migrant shelter system, a spending shift that many police officials quietly say has left basic public safety stretched thin. Departments across Massachusetts have warned for months that patrol staffing, overnight coverage, and recruitment have taken a back seat while money flows to other priorities.

All arrestees are presumed innocent until proven guilty.