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Owner of NYC day care hit with fed charges, allegedly deleted 21K encrypted messages

NY Post Senior Courts Reporter Ben Kochman breaks down the latest update on the Bronx daycare center incident where a toddler died from fentanyl exposure.

The owner of the establishment has been hit with federal drug charges — with court papers unsealed Tuesday revealing she allegedly deleted more than 20,000 messages to her still-wanted husband and tipped him off that cops were looking for him.

Grei Mendez De Ventura, the 36-year-old proprietor of Divino Niño Daycare, and her cousin-in-law, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, used the façade of a child care center to cloak their true operation, a fentanyl drug mill, authorities have said.

But as cops picked through the center following the Friday death of little Nicholas Feliz Dominici – a 1-year-old boy who cops say inhaled the lethal opioid – De Ventura deleted 21,526 encrypted messages sent between March 2021 and Sept. 15, 2023, according to court documents.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/feds-charge-bronx-daycare-owner-accomplice-with-drug-offenses-after-toddler-dies-from-fentanyl-exposure/

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