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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