NEW YORK -- A Bronx day care owner and her cousin-in-law will be in court Thursday to face murder charges in the deadly fentanyl overdose of a 1-year-old boy. It comes as the owner's husband is set to appear separately in federal court. Grei Mendez and Carlisto Acevedo Brito face murder and drug charges in the death of 1-year-old Nicholas Dominici, along with associate Renny Antonio Parra Paredes and Mendez's husband, Felix Herrera-Garcia.
15, and three other children were hospitalized after being exposed to the drug that investigators believe the four suspects were distributing out of the day care. Prosecutors say a kilogram of fentanyl, along with multiple fentanyl presses used to process the drug, were found in a closet. Officers also discovered a trap door with a secret compartment that contained more than five kilograms of fentanyl and other drugs.