NYC day care owner, neighbor charged in death of 1-year-old after possible fentanyl exposure

The owner of the New York City day care center where a one-year-old died after possible exposure to fentanyl was charged with murder. The owner's neighbor is also charged.

Divino Nino owner Grei Mendez De Ventura, 36, and neighbor Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, were arrested on Saturday on 11 charges, including depraved-indifference murder, assault and child endangerment after one child died and three others were hospitalized for exposure to what may have been fentanyl the day before.

The suspects are each also charged with manslaughter of a person under eleven-years-old, manslaughter recklessly causing death, four counts of assault causing injury through risk of death, four counts of assault causing injury during a felony, four counts of assault causing serious injury, four counts of reckless assault causing serious injury, three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of narcotics and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Officers took the two into custody after searching the building and discovering nearly a kilo of fentanyl and multiple kilo presses, a device used to combine fentanyl with other drugs, sources told the New York Post.