Officials then began to suspect opioid exposure and executed a search warrant to search the rooms, cabinets, and other spaces, where a drug packaging device was found.Ī recent court filing showed Mendez was behind on her rent for 2707 Morris Ave. They broke that trust."Īfter the children were removed from the day care, the fire department tested the air for environmental hazards and found no evidence of carbon monoxide. "Part of this relationship is based on trust, that those who are taking care of our children are going to do it in a safe manner. "Who did not do their job are the people who were there to protect the children," Adams said. When asked if the circumstances that led up to the incident fell through the cracks, Adams insisted that the city did its job and that inspections, including the surprise visit, and background checks were performed. The day care, for children between 6 weeks and 12 years old, recently opened in January and just passed a surprise visit from city inspectors last week with no violations found. Lee is forecast to still be hurricane-strength by the time it passes east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning. Officials say the defendants also kept at the day care kilo presses, which are designed for the re-compression of drugs in powder form commonly used by narcotics traffickers at mills or other locations where drugs are broken down, combined with fillers or other narcotics, and portioned for sale. Since July, the two people charged conspired to distribute fentanyl at the day care where they maintained large quantities of fentanyl "despite the daily presence of children, including infants," the complaint said. "The defendants alleged conduct that led to those poisonings is unconscionable, it's inexcusable, and it's the reason that they are now in federal custody," said U.S. Prosecutors say Mendez deleted 20,000 text messages from her phone before she was arrested, but they managed to recover them.
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Investigators discovered video of someone "carrying two full shopping bags" out of the day care, leaving the children suffering the effects inside and in desperate need of help.ĭetectives have learned that Mendez talked to her husband several times, before calling 911, in the immediate aftermath of Friday afternoon's tragedy. The defendants tried to cover up the overdoses of the babies, prosecutors said.
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